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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Count Gasparo Gozzi (1713–1786)

Gozzi, Gasparo, Count (got’sē). An Italian poet and essayist, brother of Carlo; born in Venice, Dec. 4, 1713; died at Padua, Dec. 25, 1786. He founded the Gazzetta Veneta, which was a great success; but his ‘Osservatore Veneto,’ on the model of the Spectator, is of a higher order as literature. His polemic writings on Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ are classic authorities on the resources of the Italian language. His Horatian poems are graceful; and his literary essays are as good in thought as in style.