Berni, Francesco, an Italian poet, born in Tuscany, who excelled in the burlesque, to whom the Italian as a literary language owes much; remodelled Boiardo's “Orlando Innamorato” in a style surpassing that of the original.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bernhardt, Sarah * Bernier