Filicaia

Filicaia, VINCENZO, lyrical poet, was born at Florence, 30th December 1642. The publication of his six odes celebrating the deliverance of Vienna in 1683 by John Sobieski from the besieging forces of the Turks attracted the notice of Queen Christina of Sweden, who relieved him from harassing pecuniary embarrassments. Ultimately he obtained a post from the Grand-duke of Tuscany, and he died at Florence, 25th September 1707. Some of his patriotic sonnets are famous; but his verse, though not without beauty and spirit, is disfigured by the rhetorical tricks and false conceits of the period. An edition of his works appeared at Florence in 1864.