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    The Accademia degli Umoristi (Academy of the Humorists) founded in 1603 was a learned society of intellectuals, mainly noblemen, that significantly influenced...
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    mythology, and the Bible. He also became a member of the Roman Accademia degli Umoristi, and acquired some reputation as a versifier and rhetorician. In...
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    the cardinal's behalf in 1609 and 1612. In 1611, he joined the Accademia degli Umoristi. In 1614–1615, he worked for Alessandro Tassoni, helping him edit...
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  • service of Cardinal Tiberio Muti in Rome. He became a member of the Accademia degli Umoristi under the pseudonym Aldeano. After a journey to Greece, he took...
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  • September 1670. He was a member of the Roman Accademia degli Umoristi and of the Venetian Accademia degli Incogniti. Errico's Rime (1619), which enjoyed...
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    where he lived for the next four years. He became a member of the Accademia degli Umoristi and enjoyed the patronage of Cardinal Roberto Ubaldini and Maffeo...
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    by many eminent people: A. Paolo (1580–1637), founder of the "Accademia degli Umoristi", which was attended by such literary men as Giovanni Battista...
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    Battista Manso. In 1621 he moved to Rome where he was admitted to the Accademia degli Umoristi. Maia Materdona is considered one of the most original of the early...
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  • 1636 he was already well-regarded enough to address the Roman Accademia degli Umoristi. It was here on 20 January of that year that he delivered the speech...
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  • circles, an art lover and a connoisseur. He was a member of the Accademia degli Umoristi, a literary club founded in 1603, which members included Giovanni...
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