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definitive text. It was not until after his death that a first edition of his works appeared from Rome in 1502, to be followed by some twenty more in the next ten years alone. Ultimately they ran into many more during the time his reputation was high. Of the 391 poems ascribed to him, 261 are strambotti and 97 are sonnets.
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strambotto, a form he introduced into
English verse. For the extravagant image of the breaking heart being like an exploding cannon, he is only indebted to Serafino for the idea in his “The furious gonne in his rajing yre”. In “Thou slepest ffast” two strambotti are adapted to make a single epigram,
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A collection of commendatory sonnets and other verses dedicated to
Serafino was published in 1504. In the same year, Calmeta’s biography of him was published from Bologna and, along with some of the commendatory verses, introduced various collections of his poetry over the years. He and those with
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Because
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by his maternal uncle Paolo de' Legistis, secretary to
Antonio de Guevara, Count of Potenza, and became a page in his court. There he studied music and possibly composition, at first with the visiting Flemish musician Guillaume Garnier and then
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adapted the Marot rondeau into
English as “If it be so that I forsake thee”. But Wyatt was also to translate or adapt Serafino’s work directly, being especially drawn to his use of the
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Having caused offence by castigating the vices of the Papal court in a satirical composition, he left his patron to settle in Naples again. There he became a member of the
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and other northern
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whom he associated had been drawn to
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he took as model for his own. In 1494, however, he had to quit the city
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