Barnes, Barnabe

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Barnabe Barnes, 1569?–1609, English poet. His major work is Parthenophil and Parthenophe (1593), a collection of sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes. He also wrote A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets (1595) and The Devil's Charter (1607), a tragedy on the life of Pope Alexander VI.

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