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Giovanni Battista Niccolini (29 October 1792 – 20 September 1861) was an Italian poet and playwright of the Italian unification movement or Risorgimento. ==Life== Niccolini was born in Bagni San Giuliano in 1792.〔The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.〕 He wrote his first play in Greek in 1810. The play was strongly based on Greek legeng and it was called ''Polissena''. This tragedy about the sacrifice of a virgin was so favourably received that his next three plays were also tragedies. In 1846 his play, ''Arnold of Brescia: A Tragedy''. was translated by the English immigrant Theodosia Trollope into English and published. This work was also taken up by Robert Browning. The work was written in support of the formation of Italy. Niccolini died in Florence in 1861 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Giovanni Battista Niccolini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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