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Vittorio Alfieri

b: Asti, Italy, Jan 16, 1749

d: Florence, Italy., Oct 8, 1803

Italian. Poet. Called Italy's greatest tragic poet; works are political in nature.

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The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.