High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ferrante Pallavicino (March 23, 1615 – March 5, 1644) was an Italian writer of lampoons and satires which, according to Edward Muir, "were so popular that booksellers and printers bought them from him at a premium." Pallavicino`s scandalous satires, which cost him his head at the age of twenty-eight, were all published under pseudonyms or anonymously.