Lasca, Il

Lasca, Il:

see Grazzini, Antonio FrancescoGrazzini, Antonio Francesco
, 1503–84, Italian author, one of the founders of the Accademia della Crusca (1550). He was an apothecary by trade. As a founder of the Accademia degli Umidi, each of whose members had to assume the name of a fish, he took the name Il Lasca [the
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