page_title: Giambattista Marino
section_title: L'Adone
hierarchical_section_title: Giambattista Marino / Works / Poetry / L'Adone
caption_attribution_description: Edición de 1623 del poema Adone, de Marino. Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid
context_page_description: Giambattista Marino was an Italian poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his long epic L'Adone.
  The Cambridge History of Italian Literature thought him to be "one of the greatest Italian poets of all time". He is considered the founder of the school of Marinism, later known as Secentismo or Marinismo, characterised by its use of extravagant and excessive conceits. Marino's conception of poetry, which exaggerated the artificiality of Mannerism, was based on an extensive use of antithesis and a whole range of wordplay, on lavish descriptions and a sensuous musicality of the verse, and enjoyed immense success in his time, comparable to that of Petrarch before him.
  He was widely imitated in Italy, France, Spain and other Catholic countries, including Portugal and Poland, as well as Germany, where his closest follower was Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau and Holland where Constantijn Huygens was a great admirer. In England he was admired by John Milton and translated by Richard Crashaw.
  He remained the reference point for Baroque poetry as long as it was in vogue.
context_section_description: L'Adone (Adonis), which was published in Paris in 1623 and dedicated to the French king Louis XIII, is a mythological poem written in ottava rima divided into twenty cantos.
caption: Title page of L'Adone
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