Luigi Pasqualigo

Luigi Pasqualigo (1536-1576) was a Venetian soldier and man of letters who wrote the play Il Fedele that was adapted by the English playwright Anthony Munday under the title, Fidele and Fortunio (1584). According to his brother, he was "more a follower of Mars than of Apollo".[1] Pasqualigo apparently took part in the Battle of Lepanto of 1571. He is named as commander of the Spanish galleon Idra (Hydra) of Naples which was stationed on the left wing of the battle.[2]

Publications

Influences

Plays influenced by Pasqualigo's play, Il Fedele, include:

References

  1. Renata Oggero, “Translated out of Italian". From Pasqualigo to Munday: Rewriting Italian Comedy in Elizabethan England, available at http://dspace.unitus.it/bitstream/2067/93/1/Oggero_Translated_out_of_Italian.pdf p.2. The list of publications is also as given by Oggero in the same place.
  2. See Wikipedia article, Battle of Lepanto order of battle. Perhaps this refers to another person named 'Luigi Pasqualigo' but there is no evidence to doubt that this is the same man.

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