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1. A style of satire coined by Horace, a Roman poet who lived during the 1st century BCE.
   "The fountain of Horatianism in Spain was the imitation of _Epode II_, _Beatus Ille_, by the Marquis de Santillana, one of Castile's two first sonneteers, in the first half of the fifteenth century."

Type of: genre