Giambattista Marino
（重定向自Giambattista Marini）
![Frans Pourbus the Younger, Portrait of Giovanni Battista Marino, c. 1621. Oil on canvas, 81.0 x 65.7 cm. Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts.[1]](/Images/godic/202501/15/Frans_Pourbus_the_Younger_-_Portrait_of_Giovanni_Battista_Marino3051.jpg")
![Title page of L'Adone](/Images/godic/202501/15/Marino_Adone3052.jpg")
Giambattista Marino (also Giovan Battista Marino) (14 October 1569 – 26 March 1625) was an Italian poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his long epic L'Adone.
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature thought him to be "one of the greatest Italian poets of all time". He is considered the founder of the school of Marinism, later called Secentismo, characterised by its use of extravagant and excessive conceits. Marino's conception of poetry, which exaggerated the artificiality of Mannerism, was based on an extensive use of antithesis and a whole range of wordplay, on lavish descriptions and a sensuous musicality of the verse, and enjoyed immense success in his time, comparable to that of Petrarch before him.