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Querno
Querno,in Pope's Dunciad (II. 15), was an Apulian poet to whom the author compares C. Cibber . According to Paulus Jovius , Querno, hearing that Pope Leo X patronized literature, set out for Rome where he recited some 20,000 lines of his Alexias and was made poet laureate as a joke.
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