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Antonio Bruni (poet)
Antonio Bruni (; 15 December 1593 – 23 September 1635) was an Italian Marinist poet. He was one of the most successful of Marino's followers. Life Antonio Bruni was born in Manduria on 15 December 1593, a son of Giulio Cesare, originally from Asti, and Isabella Pasanisi. Having completed his studies in his homeland, he moved to Naples, where he was kindly welcomed by Giovanni Battista Manso, the founder of the Accademia degli Oziosi.. He undertook studies in jurisprudence at the University of Naples. It was at about the same time that he began to compose verses, perhaps at the request of Manso himself. His first poetic collection, ''La selva di Parnaso'', was printed in Venice in 1616. Divided into two parts (the first containing only sonnets and the second containing madrigals, songs, stanzas, panegyrics), the collection was highly praised by Giambattista Marino. In 1615 Bruni embraced the ecclesiastical state and was appointed archpriest in his native Manduria, a positi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manduria
Manduria is a city and ''comune'' of Apulia, Italy, in the province of Taranto. With c. 32,000 inhabitants (2013), it is located east of Taranto. Etymology The name ''Manduria'' is thought to derive from a Proto-Indo-European stem ''*mond-''/''*mend-'' or ''*mando-'', meaning 'foal'. The toponym would, then, be of Messapic origin, and related to the semantic field of 'horses', also seen in Illyrian theonym ''Iuppiter Menzanas'' and Albanian ''mëz-i'' 'foal'. History It was an important stronghold of the Messapii against Taras. Archidamus III, king of Sparta, fell beneath its walls in 338 BC, while leading the army of the latter (Manduria is also referred to as "Mandonion" in works by the Greek and Roman historian Plutarch). Manduria revolted against Hannibal, but was taken in 209 BC. Pliny the Elder mentions Manduria in Natural History. He describes a well with a strangely constant water level. No matter how much water was taken out the water level never changed. The w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanza
In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian ''stanza'', ; ) is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, but they are not required to have either. There are many different forms of stanzas. Some stanzaic forms are simple, such as four-line quatrains. Other forms are more complex, such as the Spenserian stanza. Fixed verse poems, such as sestinas, can be defined by the number and form of their stanzas. The stanza has also been known by terms such as ''batch'', ''fit'', and ''stave''. The term ''stanza'' has a similar meaning to ''strophe'', though ''strophe'' sometimes refers to an irregular set of lines, as opposed to regular, rhymed stanzas. Even though the term "stanza" is taken from Italian, in the Italian language the word "strofa" is more commonly used. In music, groups of lines are typically referred to as '' verses''. The stanza in poetry is analogous with the paragrap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aglaia (Grace)
In Greek mythology, Aglaia, Aglaïa (), or Aglaea () (''Brill's New Pauly''s.v. Aglaea (1)) is a goddess, one of the Charites (known as the Graces in Roman mythology). Family According to Hesiod and other sources (including Apollodorus), Aglaia was one of the three Charites, along with Euphrosyne (mirth) and Thalia (abundance), who were the daughters of Zeus and the Oceanid Eurynome.Bells.v. Aglaia (1), p. 15 Other sources name the same three Charites (Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia) but give them different parents. The '' Orphic Hymn to the Graces'' says they are the daughters of Zeus and Eunomia (goddess of good order and lawful conduct), and Pindar says that they are daughters of the strongest god (i.e. Zeus) without naming their mother.Pindar, ''Olympian Ode'14.1–20 Hesiod says also that Aglaia is the youngest of the Charites.Hesiod, ''Theogony'945 According to the ''Dionysiaca'', Aglaia is one of the "dancers of Orchomenus" (i.e. the Charites, per Pindar), along w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommaso Stigliani
Tommaso Stigliani (; 28 June 1573 – 27 January 1651) was an Italian poet, literary critic, and writer, best known for his enmity with Giambattista Marino. Biography He was born in Matera, and educated in Naples where he met with the poets Torquato Tasso and Giambattista Marino. At first a friend of Marino, he later became his bitter enemy and indulged in literary and personal polemics with him. Especially in ''Dello occhiale'' (Venice: Carempello, Sandro Bazacchi, 1627), Stigliani laments Marino's many “failures” in the poem ''Adone''. Marino refused, Stigliani indignantly points out, to follow Aristotle's unities, ignoring the need for a proper beginning, middle, and an end. The poem is overwhelmed by superfluities, enthusiasms, and disproportion. In chapter 6, Stigliani regrets the way Marino “stumbles” through the episodes of Adonis and Venus. And so on, for more than 500 pages (there are tables at the end that list all of Marino's “errors”). Stigliani's cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girolamo Preti
Girolamo Preti (1582 — 6 April 1626) was an Italian Baroque poet. He is considered one of the most accomplished of early 17th-century poets. Biography Born in Bologna in 1582, he was destined for a legal career, but broke off his studies to devote himself to literature. He became a member of the Bolognese Accademia dei Gelati, founded in 1588 by Melchiorre Zoppio, and became friends with the poet Cesare Rinaldi. In 1609, he was made member of the Accademia degli Umoristi. He became friends with Girolamo Aleandro, Antonio Bruni, Alessandro Tassoni and other members of the Academy. In 1611 Preti was charged by cardinal Federico Borromeo to purchase volumes for the newly founded Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Later he put himself at the service of Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia and then of Alessandro Ludovisi (the future Pope Gregory XV). Preti was one of the few '' concettisti'' to find favour in the Rome of Pope Urban VIII; he served as secretary to Cardinal Francesco Barberi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Achillini
Claudio Achillini (; 18 September 1574 – 1 October 1640) was an Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, and jurist. He is a major figure in the history of Italian Baroque poetry. Biography Born in Bologna, he was a grandson to Giovanni Filoteo Achillini and grand-nephew of Alessandro Achillini. He was professor of jurisprudence for several years at his native Bologna, Parma, and Ferrara, with the highest reputation. So much admiration did his learning excite, that inscriptions to his honour were placed in the schools in his lifetime. He was a member of a number of learned and literary societies, including the Accademia dei Lincei. On 9 February 1621, Achillini went to Rome, where he obtained great promises of preferment from popes and cardinals, but they proved only promises. Odoardo Farnese, duke of Parma, engaged him however on very liberal terms, to occupy the chair of law in his university. He wrote the text for a play with music by Monteverdi presented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Villani
Nicola (or Niccolò) Villani (1590 – 2 October 1636) was an Italian literary critic and Baroque poet. Biography Nicola Villani was born in Pistoia in 1590, of a noble family. The famous Medieval chronicler Giovanni Villani was among his ancestors. He studied in Florence, Siena and Pisa, then entered the service of Cardinal Tiberio Muti in Rome. He became a member of the Accademia degli Umoristi under the pseudonym Aldeano. After a journey to Greece, he took up residence in Venice. Around 1630, he returned to Rome, where he died in 1636. Works Nicola Villani is best known for his critical writings, in which he defended Giambattista Marino against the attacks of Tommaso Stigliani. Villani took up a moderate position in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns that developed in Italy in the second and third decades of the 17th century. While he ranked Marino above Dante and Petrarch, he considered Homer and Virgil superior to all modern poets. Villani's ''Fiorenza difesa'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroque Literature
The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as "late Baroque") and Neoclassical styles. It was encouraged by the Catholic Church as a means to counter the simplicity and austerity of Protestant architecture, art, and music, though Lutheran Baroque art developed in parts of Europe as well. The Baroque style used contrast, movement, exuberant detail, deep color, grandeur, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe. The style began at the start of the 17th century in Rome, then spread rapidly to the rest of Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, then to Austria, southern Germany, Poland and Russia. By the 1730s, it had evolved into an even more flamboyant style, called '' rocaille'' or ''Rococo'', which appeared in France and Central Europe until the mid to lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heroides
The ''Heroides'' (''The Heroines''), or ''Epistulae Heroidum'' (''Letters of Heroines''), is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines of Greek and Roman mythology in address to their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them. A further set of six poems, widely known as the '' Double Heroides'' and numbered 16 to 21 in modern scholarly editions, follows these individual letters and presents three separate exchanges of paired epistles: one each from a heroic lover to his absent beloved and from the heroine in return. The ''Heroides'' were long held in low esteem by literary scholars but, like other works by Ovid, were re-evaluated more positively in the late 20th century. Arguably some of Ovid's most influential works ( see below), one point that has greatly contributed to their mystique—and to the reverberations they have produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three Western canon, canonical poets of Latin literature. The Roman Empire, Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegy, elegists.Quint. ''Inst.'' 10.1.93 Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus Exile of Ovid, exiled him to Constanța, Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars. Ovid is most famous for the ''Metamorphoses'', a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sestina
A sestina (, from ''sesto'', sixth; Old Occitan: ''cledisat'' ; also known as ''sestine'', ''sextine'', ''sextain'') is a fixed verse, fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in each of the following stanzas, rotated in a set pattern. The invention of the form is usually attributed to Arnaut Daniel, a troubadour of 12th-century Provence, and the first sestinas were written in the Occitan language of that region. The form was cultivated by his fellow troubadours, then by other poets across Continental Europe in the subsequent centuries; they contributed to what would become the "standard form" of the sestina. The earliest example of the form in English appeared in 1579, though they were rarely written in Britain until the end of the 19th century. The sestina remains a popular poetic form, and many sestinas continue to be written by contemporary p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Maria II Della Rovere, Duke Of Urbino
Francesco Maria II della Rovere (20 February 1549 – 23 April 1631) was the last Duke of Urbino. Biography Born at Pesaro, Francesco Maria was the son of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Count of Montefeltro and Vittoria Farnese, Princess of Parma. He was raised between 1565 and 1568 at the Royal court of Philip II of Spain. While there he met a Spanish girl and informed his father of his intention to marry her. But his father would not allow it and demanded he return to Urbino. In 1570 Francesco Maria married Lucrezia d'Este, a daughter of Ercole II d'Este. His father died only a few years later, in 1574, and Francesco Maria succeeded his father as Duke of Urbino. By 1580 the family estate was in crisis and Francesco Maria was forced to sell his family's titles – the Duchy of Sora and Arce – for 100,000 scudi to Giacomo Boncompagni. Francesco Maria's marriage, though, remained childless and Francesco Maria needed a male heir. Without one, his family's rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
