Pulci

British  

/ ˈpultʃi /

noun

1. Luigi (ˈlwiːdʒi). 1432–84, Italian poet. His masterpiece is the comic epic poem Morgante (1483)

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Example Sentences

The Pulci were a noble family, reduced in circumstances and attached to the Casa Medici by ties of political and domestic dependency.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

It was speedily imitated by Luigi Pulci in the Beca da Dicomano, a village poem that, aiming at cruder realism than Lorenzo's, broke the style and lapsed into vulgarity.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

I trust, however, it has been made sufficiently clear that Don Juan is something quite different from the mere mock-heroic—from Pulci, for instance, "sire of the half-serious rhyme," whom Byron professed to imitate.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer

It remained for Pulci to develop, without classical admixture, the elements of poetry existing in the popular Italian romances.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

This is burlesque, and Pulci seems to have been the inventor of the genre.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund