Alessandro Lionardi | |
Nationality: | Venetian |
Citizenship: | Padovan |
Period: | mid-16th century |
Notableworks: | Dialogi, Rime di M. Alessandro Lionardi |
Alessandro Lionardi or Leonardi was an Italian poet from Padova, active in the mid-16th century. He was a doctor of law, and author of an important treatise on poetry and rhetoric, the Dialogi (it|dialoghi, or "dialogues"). He is the author of the texts of Alfonso Ferrabosco's five-voice madrigals Vidi pianger madonna and Come dal ciel seren rugiada sole.
The published works of Lionardi include: