The Florentine Luigi Alamanni, court poet to…
1546 CE
The Florentine Luigi Alamanni, court poet to King Francis, writes his most important work in 1546: La coltivazione (“On Cultivation”), a didactic poem about rustic life.
His also writes a comedy, La Flora; a tragedy, Antigone; and many epigrams.
Alamanni is credited with introducing the epigram into Italian poetry.