Alessandro Guarini
Alessandro Guarini | |
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Born | c. 1563 |
Died | August 15, 1636 |
Burial place | Santa Maria degli Angeli (Ferrara) |
Nationality | Italian |
Occupations |
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Spouse |
Virginia Palmiroli (m. 1586) |
Parent(s) | Giovanni Battista Guarini and Taddea Guarini (née Bendidio) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Perugia |
Influences | |
Academic work | |
Era | Renaissance |
Institutions | University of Ferrara |
Alessandro Guarini (c. 1563 – 15 August 1636) was an Italian writer, jurist and diplomat. He is famous for his dialogue Il farnetico savio overo il Tasso (1610).[2]
Biography
Alessandro was the eldest of the four sons of
Alessandro Guarini seems at one time to have been professor of literae humaniores in Ferrara, and Secretary to the Duke.[4] He was one of the founders of the Accademia degli Intrepidi of Ferrara.[3] He died in Ferrara on August 15, 1636.
Works
Besides minor verses, which appear never to have been collected, he published a tragicomedy, Bradamante Gelosa (Ferrara, 1616), and three prose works: a Trattato del vero, e real fondamento della catolica fede (1635), an Apologia di Cesare (ibid., 1632), and Il farnetico savio overo il Tasso (ibid., 1610), a dialogue on literary theory between the poet Cesare Caporali and Torquato Tasso, whom Alessandro had known since his childhood.[3] His Lettere were published in Ferrara in 1611.[3]
Notes
- ^ a b Di Benedetto 1970.
- ^ Diffley 2002.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Cerroni 2003.
- ^ Tiraboschi 1785, p. 228.
Bibliography
- Diffley, P. (2002). "Guarini, Alessandro". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- Tiraboschi, Girolamo (1785). Storia della letteratura italiana. Vol. VII Part III. Rome: Luigi Perego Salvioni.
- Croce, Benedetto (1931). "Alessandro Guarini storico e critico". Nuovi Saggi Sulla Letteratura Italiana del Seicento. Bari: Laterza: 106–114.
- Di Benedetto, Arnaldo (1967). "Un paragrafo della storia della cultura ferrarese tra Cinque e Seicento: Alessandro Guarini". Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana. 144: 261–291.
- Di Benedetto, Arnaldo (1970). "Guarini, Alessandro". Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
- Cerroni, Monica (2003). "GUARINI, Alessandro, il Giovane". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.