Vittorio Alfieri (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Vittorio Alfieri’s love of liberty and hate of tyranny resulted in several poetic works. In L’America libera (1784; Alfieri’s Ode to America’s Independence, 1976), the poet exalts the Americans who rebelled against English tyranny. He wrote the first four odes in 1781 and added one more in 1783. The first describes the reasons for the American War of Independence, the second enumerates the participants, the third speaks about the Marquis de Lafayette, the fourth praises George Washington, and the fifth is dedicated to the peace of 1783...
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