Giorgio Baffo

Giorgio Alvise Baffo (Venetian: Zorzi Alvixe Baffo; 11 August 1694 – 30 July 1768) was an Italian poet and senator of the Venetian Republic.

[1][2] Born in Venice, Baffo was, like Ruzante, Carlo Goldoni and Berto Barbarani, a major writer in the Venetian language.

He wrote many erotic sonnets.

[3] Baffo died in 1768 in the Palazzo Bellavite, Venice.

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