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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Andrea Maffei (1798–1885)

Maffei, Andrea, Cavaliere (mä-fā’ē). An Italian poet; born at Riva di Trento, 1798; died at Milan, Nov. 27, 1885. He wrote: ‘Dal Benaco’ (1854); ‘Verses Published and Unpublished’ (1858); ‘Art, Ardors, and Fancies’ (2d ed. 1864), containing many rare lyrics. He made numerous translations from the German, English, and Greek. He was also in public life, and became senator.