Verso marteliano

The Martelian verses are verses of 14 syllables, which were invented by the poet Ciullo de Alcamo in the 12th century, and because they were too long and monotonous, were not accepted. The Bolognese poet of the XVII and XVIII centuries, Pedro Jaime Martelli, tried to resurrect them to imitate with them the verses of the tragic French called Alexandrians, for having been used initially in the novel of chivalry Alexander the Great, composed in century XII or principles of the XIII

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