Bernardo Dovizi
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Bernardo Dovizi of Bibbiena (4 August 1470 – 9 November 1520) was an Italian
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He received a substantial literary training, and became a preceptor and boon companion of
Leo X repaid such services by naming him a Cardinal in the Consistory of 23 September 1513, and appointing him Cardinal Deacon of S. Maria in Portico. Leo continued to show his favor by appointing Bibbiena his treasurer and entrusting him with many important missions, among them the command of the Papal army in the War of Urbino (1517) and a legation to France (1518). Later on, the cardinal's strong sympathies for France lost him Leo's confidence. As cardinal he steadily extended his generous patronage of the arts - he was a close friend of Raphael, whom he had known since his youth, and arranged his engagement to his niece. Raphael painted a number of works for him, including frescoes of a classical and erotic style for his bathroom in the Vatican.
Author
His literary fame is mainly connected with the first comedy of note written in Italian prose, , it possessed the features of modern comedy and won plaudits for its sparkling wit and fine characterization.
The main character,
A Paduan poet serving at the Dresden Court, Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, wrote a libretto based on the same story for the comic opera Calandro by Giovanni Alberto Ristori. It was first staged in 1726 at the castle of Pilnitz near Dresden, and in 1731 in Moscow it was the first ever opera performed in Russia.
There were also the operas by:
- Antonio Sacchini, L'avaro deluso, o Don Calandrino (24 November 1778 London)
- Johann Georg Schürer, Calandro (20 January 1748 Dresden)
- Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Il Calandrino (1771 Venice)
See also
- Stufetta del cardinal Bibbiena
- Plautus
- Menaechmi
- Calandro
- Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino
- Summary of Decameron tales
References
Sources
- Barbiche, B.; S. de Dainville Barbiche (1985). "Les lègats "a latere" en France," in: Archivium historiae pontificiae, 22 (1985), pp. 93–165 at p. 50.
- Cardella, Lorenzo (1793). Memorie storiche de' cardinali della santa romana. Tomo quarto (Roma: Pagliarini 1793), pp. 7–9.
- Dovizi, Bernardo (1955). G L Moncallero (ed.). Epistolario di Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena (in Italian and Latin). Firenze: L.S. Olschki.
- Gaeta, F. (1969. "Il Bibbiena diplomatico," Rinascimento, serie 2, 9 (1969), pp. 69–94.
- Moncallero, Giuseppe Lorenzo (1953). Il Cardinale Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena: umanista e diplomatico (1470–1520), uomini e avvenimenti del rinascimento alla luce di documenti inediti (in Italian). Firenze: L.S. Olschki.
- Santelli, A. (1931). Il cardinal Bibbiena, Bologna 1931. (panegyric)
External links
- Patrizi, Giorgio (1992), "Dovizi, Bernardo, detto il Bibbiena," Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 41 (1992) (in Italian) Retrieved: 2017-01-13.
- Works by Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Bernardo Dovizi at Internet Archive
- Works by or about Bibbiena at Internet Archive
- Catholic Encyclopedia