ALAMANNI or ALEMANNI, LUIGI Ital ian statesman and poet, was born at Florence. Luigi joined with others in an unsuccessful conspiracy against Giulio de' Medici, afterwards Pope Clement VII. He was obliged to take refuge in Venice, and, on the accession. of Clement, to flee to France. When Florence shook off the papal yoke in 1527, Alamanni re turned, and took a prominent part in the management of the affairs of the republic. On the restoration of the Medici in 1530 he had again to take refuge in France, where he enjoyed the favour both of Francis I. and Henry II. He died at Amboise on April 18, 1556. His best work, La Coltivazione (Paris, 1546), is a didactic poem, written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics. His Opere Toscane (Lyons, 153 2) consists of satirical pieces written in blank verse. An unfinished poem, Avarchide, in imitation of the Iliad, was the work of his old age and has little merit. It has been said by some that Alamanni was the first to use blank verse in Italian poetry, but the distinction belongs rather to his contemporary Giangiorgio Trissino. He also wrote a poetical romance, Girone it Cortese (Paris, 1548) ; a tragedy, Antigone; a comedy, Flora, and other poems. His works were published, with a biography, by P. Raffaelli, as Versi e prose di Luigi Alamanni (Florence, 1859).
BIBLIOGRAPHY. See G. Naro, Luigi Alamanni e la coltivazione Bibliography. See G. Naro, Luigi Alamanni e la coltivazione (Syracuse, 1897), and C. Corso, Un decennio di patriottismo di Luigi Alamanni (Palermo, 1898).