Trissino, Gian Giorgio (1478–1550)

Venetian dramatist, scholar, and poet. He was interested in linguistic problems, translating Dante's De Vulgari Eloquentia into the volgare and writing his own treatise Il Castellano. He also turned his hand to tragedy, in his Sofonisba (written in 1514–15, but not staged until 1562) imitating ancient Greek models. He also produced an epic, La Italia liberata dai Goti/Italy liberated from the Goths (1547–48).