rifacimento

Rifacimento, rē-f�-chi-men′tō, n. a recasting of literary works:—pl.

The final product is a masterpiece of refined art, retaining something of the French-429- originals, something of the popular Italian rifacimento, but superadding the wisdom, the irony, and the poetry of one of the world's brightest geniuses.

This rifacimento was published in 1541, after his death.

Since the two originals differed in character, his rifacimento retained their divers peculiarities, notwithstanding those master-touches which betray the same hand in both of its main sections.

The critics of the last century rediscovered Berni's rifacimento, and began to quote Boiardo's poem under his name, treating the real author as an ignorant and uncouth writer of a barbarous dialect.