Giorgio Baffo

Giorgio Baffo

Plaque commemorating Giorgio Baffo on the facade of Palace Bellavite in Venice

Zorzi (Giorgio) Baffo (11 August 1694 - 30 July 1768) was an Italian poet and senator of the Venetian Republic.

Baffo was born in Venice. He was, like Ruzante, Carlo Goldoni and Berto Barbarani, a major writer in the Venetian dialect. He wrote many erotic sonnets.

Baffo died in 1768 in the Palazzo Bellavite, Venice.