Bernardo Morando (18 April 1589 — 6 March 1656) was an Italian

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and

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Biography

Born in

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into a wealthy family of merchants, he worked in commerce in

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, where he had the Dukes of Parma as a patron. On 9 January 1612 he married Angelica Bignami, by whom he had 13 children, 4 of whom died in infancy. After his wife's death, he took holy orders. He had a major success, with his novel ''La Rosalinda'' (1650), which tells of Rosalinda, a young Catholic girl in

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after fleeing religious persecution with other Catholics including Lealdo a man she is in love with. He also wrote about other Mediterranean adventures including shipwrecks, pirates and slavery. The novel, considered "a masterpiece of psychological penetration", was a huge success and enjoyed over twenty reprints. It was translated into

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by Gaspard-Moïse-Augustin de Fontanieu (Grenoble 1730; Hague

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1732). An English translation of the French version was published in London in 1733. Morando was a member of the Accademia degli Addormentati of Genoa and of the

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of Venice and corresponded with

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, Anton Giulio Brignole-Sale,

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, Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiale, Agostino Mascardi and

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. He died in Piacenza on 6 March 1656.

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External links

* * «Bernardo Morandi Genovese». In : ''Le glorie de gli Incogniti: o vero, Gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de' signori Incogniti di Venetia'', In Venetia : appresso Francesco Valuasense stampator dell'Accademia, 1647, pp. 84–87
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