Benedetto Stay (1714–1801) was a Ragusan

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clergyman, educated by

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, he attended the academic assemblies of Marin Sorgo, beginning the composition of a poem on Alexander Farnese. Later on, he published "Saggio sull'uomo", based on the system of Descartes.

Life

Stay came from the Stay family from Antivari (Bar) (now

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). His grandfather, after whom he was named, was a painter. At the age of 28, he journeyed to Rome and became the pupil of Silvio Valenti Gonzaga at the

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conferred on him the position of secretary of Latin letters and

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named him ''Head of the Secretariat''. He died on 25 February 1801.

Works

He was the author of two Latin poems, one on the Cartesian philosophy in 6 books (

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1744) and the other on that of Newton in 10 books (1755–1792). Besides, he wrote three orations: one on the death of Clement XII, one for the election of his successor, and the third on the death of

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, king of Poland.

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, ''Notizie istorico-critiche sulle antichità, storia e letteratura dei Ragusei'', Ragusa 1802; *

Niccolò Tommaseo Niccolò Tommaseo (; 9 October 1802 – 1 May 1874) was a Dalmatian Italian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a (''A Dictionary of the Italian Language'') in eight volumes (1861–74), of a dictionary of synonyms (1830) and other ...

, ''Studi critici'', Venezia 1843; * Simeone Gliubich, ''Dizionario biografico degli uomini illustri della Dalmazia'', Vienna 1856; * Milivoj Šrepel, ''Stay prema Lukreciju'' (Stay in relazione a Lucrezio) in ''Rad'', Zagabria 1895; * Attilio Tamaro, ''La Vénétie Julienne et la Dalmatie'', Roma 1919; * Ildebrando Tacconi, ''I poemi filosofici latini di Benedetto Stay il Lucrezio Ragusino'', in ''La Rivista dalmatica'', 1934 e 1935. * 1714 births 1801 deaths 18th-century Croatian Roman Catholic priests Ragusan clergy {{Croatia-bio-stub