1Relating to the Academy della Crusca in Florence, an institution established in 1582, with the purity of the Italian language as its chief interest.

1. 1.1 Relating to a late-18th-century school of English poets with an artificial style modeled on that of purist Italian writers.
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   • Ultimately, time and change unravels the Della Cruscan affair and ensures the failure of romance.
   • His verse reply to ‘The Snow Drop’ is in fact more a Della Cruscan erotic compliment than eulogy.
   • Using Gray's ‘Elegy’ as a point of comparison, give us a head start by talking about how Della Cruscan verse functions and what it wants to achieve.
   • When it is revived at the end of the eighteenth-century by the English Della Cruscan poets, the tradition gains a new life in the orbit of the romantic movement.
   • In 1791 she married Robert Merry, leader of the Della Cruscan group of minor English writers.
   • As a member of the Della Cruscan school of poetry, she had an indirect influence on the canonical Romantic poets.
   • The Anglo-Italian collaboration is an important aspect of the original the Della Cruscan movement.
   • The following lines are the very perfection of Della Cruscan sentiment and affected orientalism of style.

1A member of the Academy della Crusca.

1. 1.1 A Della Cruscan poet.
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   • It was a name, Della Cruscans, which came to be applied to a group of English poets living in Italy at the end of the 18th century.
   • Juan's enforced cross-dressing seems to be Byron's self-justification for his harshly reviewed collections of juvenile poetry in the style of the Della Cruscans.