BERNI, FRANCESCO, an eminent writer of Italian jocose poetry, in very pure Tuscan, though often disguised by licentious equivocations. His humour is broad, and his satire often cutting, though generally good-natured. He is best known in this country for his remodelling of the Orlando Innamorato of Boiardo, which was introduced to the English reader by the analyses and specimens by W. S. Rose in 1823. The best edition of Berni's Rifacimento is that of 1545, which has been followed by Molini of Florence, in 1827.