Brewer's: Chiabreresco

(Italian). Poetry formed on the Greek model; so called from Gabriel Chiabrera, surnamed the “Pindar of Italy” (1552-1637).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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