Alessandro Adimari
Alessandro Adimari | |
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Born | 1579 |
Died | 1649 | (aged 69–70)
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Known for | Italian translation of Pindar |
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Language | Latin, Italian |
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Literary movement | Baroque |
Alessandro Adimari (Italian:
Biography
Alessandro Adimari was born of a noble Florentine family in 1579. He held minor government offices and was a member of the Accademia degli Alterati, the Accademia degli Incogniti and the Accademia dei Lincei.[1] In 1633 he was appointed secretary of the Accademia Fiorentina.[1]
In 1631 he published a free translation of Pindar in Italian verse, with notes and illustrations, Le Odi di Pindaro tradotte in parafrasi e in rima Toscana e dichiarate con osservazione e confronti di alcuni luoghi imitati e tocchi da Orazio. Adimari, who dedicated his work to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, says that he spent sixteen years about it. He inserted synoptical sketches for the purpose of explaining the plan and order of the Greek poet in his odes. Pierre-Louis Ginguené, in the Biographie Universelle, art. Adimari, falsely charges him with having borrowed them from Erasmus Schmidt's Latin version of Pindar, published 1616.[2]
Adimari wrote also a kind of bibliography of poets La Mono-Grecia ove sono raccolti i nomi di tutti i Poeti dal principio della Poesia del Mondo sino al principio della Poesia Toscana ; Esequie di don Francesco de Medici (1614) ; and other minor works. He also wrote a religious drama, L'adorazione de' Magi (1642).
Between 1637 and 1640 he published six collections of fifty sonnets each, under the names of six of the
Works
- Alessandro, Adimari (1631). Ode Di Pindaro Antichissimo Poeta: Cioè, Olimpie & Pithie & Nemee & Istmie Tradotte in Parafrasi, & in Rima Toscana Da Alessandro Adimari, e dichiarate dal medesimo. Con osseruazioni, e confronti d'alcuni luoghi immitati, ò tocchi Da Orazio Flacco (in Italian). Pisa: nella stamperia di Francesco Tanagli.
References
- ^ a b D'Addario 1960.
- ISBN 978-0-86698-263-4.
- ^ "ADIMARI (Alexander)". Alexander Chalmers' General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1. London: J. Nichols and Son. 1812.
- ^ See: Patrizia Bettella, The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), p. 130 sqq.
- ISBN 9780810393639.
Bibliography
- «Alessandro Adimari Fiorentino». 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. 14–17 (on-line).
- The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Vol. 1. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1843. pp. 349–350. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Sandys, John Edwin(1908). A History of Classical Scholarship. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 282.
- Gabrieli, Giuseppe (1940). "Di Alessandro Adimari Linceo". Archivio Storico Italiano (in Italian). 98 (1): 84–89. JSTOR 26242707.
- D'Addario, Arnaldo (1960). "ADIMARI, Alessandro". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Slawinski, M. (2002). "Adimari, Alessandro". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 7 June 2023.