Bandino Gualfreducci

Bandino Gualfreducci (1565–1627) was an Italian

Bandino Gualfreducci wrote a considerable amount of Latin verse, principally dramas. He was author of several Latin poems of religious content and of some theatrical pieces that were performed at the Roman College.^[3] His miscellaneous verse was collected in the following volume: Variorum Carminum libri sex. Sophoclis Oedipus Tyrannus eodem interprete. Rome (apud heredem Barth. Zannetti), 1622. Gualfreducci took an unusual interest in the Greek Anthology; and it may well be that it was owing to his interest that it came to play a part in Jesuit education.^[4] The sixth book of his Carmina is wholly made up of translations from the Greek epigrams arranged roughly in the order of the Planudean collection. The section is headed: 'E Graeco libro Anthologiae.'

These translations in many instances are the same as those published in the Selecta Epigrammata of 1608^[5] under the initials 'B. Gu.,' and it seems probable that Gualfreducci was the editor of that Selection.^[4]

Gualfreducci's collection includes also a Latin version of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.

List of works

• Hieromenia seu sacri menses, Rome, 1622, 1625, in-12: a collection of
  poems in praise of every saint
  celebrated by the Church every day of the year.
• Variorum carminum libri sex, ibid., 1622, in-12 (online).
• Sigeris, Tragœdia, ibid., 1627, in-12.
• Oratio de Passione Domini, ibid., 1641, in-12.

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