GUIDI, CARLO ALESSANDRO Italian lyric poet, was born at Pavia on June 14, 165o. As chief founder of the well-known Roman academy called "L'Arcadia," he had a share in the reform of Italian poetry, corrupted by the extrava gances of the poets Marini and Achillini and their school. Guidi's most celebrated song is that entitled Alla Fortuna (To Fortune). In 1681 he published at Parma his poems, his lyric tragedy Amal asunta in Italy, and two pastoral dramas Daphne and Endymion. His poetical version of the six homilies of Pope Clement XI. proved to be the indirect cause of the author's death. Guidi was on his way to present a copy to the pope, when he found a serious typographical error; he took it so much to heart that he was seized with an apoplectic fit at Frascati and died (June I 2, I 712) .