Fulvio Testi
Fulvio Testi | |
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Born | |
Died | 28 August 1646 | (aged 52–53)
Resting place | San Domenico, Modena |
Other names | Fulvio Savojano |
Alma mater | |
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Spouse | Anna Leni |
Children | 7 |
Parent(s) | Giulio Testi and Margherita Testi (née Calmoni) |
Honours | Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus Order of Santiago |
Writing career | |
Language | Italian, Latin |
Notable works | Poesie liriche Le Filippiche contro gli spagnuoli |
Fulvio Testi (August 1593 in Ferrara – 28 August 1646 in Modena) was an Italian diplomat and poet who is recognised as one of the main exponents of 17th-century Italian Baroque literature. He worked in the service of the d'Este dukes in Modena, for whom he held high office, such as the governorship of Garfagnana. His poems tackle civic themes in solemn tones, showing Testi's lasting anti-Spanish and, consequently, pro-Savoia political passions. Accused of treason for having tried to set up diplomatic relations with the French court, he was imprisoned and died in jail soon after. One later literary critic wrote:
If he'd been born in a less barbarous age, and had had more time than he did to cultivate his talent, he would doubtless have been our Horace, and perhaps been hotter and more vehement and more sublime than the Latin man[1]
Life
The son of Giulio and Margherita Calmoni, Fulvio studied literature and philosophy with the
His Rime published in 1617, anticipated by their dedication to
Henceforth, Testi's career took him on a long series of travels of a diplomatic nature, notably to Vienna, Rome, Venice and Turin, with the result that in April 1635 he was awarded a
Following further diplomatic missions, he undertook confidential inquiries through the Italian Cardinal Mazarin, to be transferred to the court of France. Upon discovery, in January 1646 he was committed to the prison of Modena as a traitor, where, after seven months' confinement, he died.
A hypothesis developed by Girolamo Tiraboschi suggested that Testi's imprisonment was motivated by the resentment of principe Raimondo Montecuccoli, to whom Testi would have dedicated a far from flattering ode; the poet Ugo Foscolo, absorbing Tiraboschi's thesis, recorded nevertheless that the ode in question, though dedicated tor Montecuccoli, indirectly affronted the Este.
Main works
Lyric poems
- Fulvio Testi (1617). Rime. Modena.
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ignored (help) - Fulvio Testi (1627). Poesie liriche. Modena.
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ignored (help) - Fulvio Testi, L'isola d'Alcina, 1626.[3][4]
- Fulvio Testi (1652). L'Arsinda, ouero la descendenza de' ser.mi prencipi d'Este. Venetia.
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ignored (help) - Fulvio Testi (1817). Opere scelte. Vol. I (Poesie). Modena.
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Political works
- Fulvio Testi (1618). L'Italia all'inuittissimo, e gloriosissimo prencipe Carlo Emanuel Duca di Sauoia. Torino.
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ignored (help) - Fulvio Testi (1643). Ristretto delle ragioni che la serenissima Casa d'Este ha colla Camera apostolica, con le risposte di Roma, & contrarisposte per parte del serenissimo di Modena. s.l.
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ignored (help) - Fulvio Testi (1838). Scritti inediti di Daniello Bartoli, Fulvio Testi, Alberto Lollio. Ferrara.
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ignored (help) - Fulvio Testi (1902). Francesco Bartoli (ed.). Le filippiche e due altre scritture contro gli spagnuoli. con lo pseudonimo di Fulvio Savojano. Milano: Francesco Bartoli.
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Letters
- Fulvio Testi (1817). Opere scelte. Vol. II (Lettere). Modena.
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ignored (help) - Fulvio Testi, Lettere inedite in nome del duca Francesco I. a Francesco Sassatelli, luogotenente di Vignola, s.e., Modena 1841.
- Fulvio Testi (1843). "Lettere inedite". Memorie di Religione, di Morale e di Letteratura. Modena: Real tip. Soliani: 49–85 (t. XV) e 333–346 (t. XVI).
- Alfredo Lazzari, ed. (1872). Quattro lettere inedite di Fulvio Testi. Faenza: Alfredo Lazzari.
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ignored (help) - Fulvio Testi, Lettere, 3 voll. (1609-1633, 1634–1637, 1638–1646), a cura di Maria Luisa Doglio, Casa editrice Giuseppe Laterza & figli, Bari 1967.
References
- ^ Se fosse venuto in età meno barbara, e avesse avuto agio di coltivare l'ingegno suo più che non fece, sarebbe stato senza controversia il nostro Orazio, e forse più caldo e veemente e sublime del Latino" - Giacomo Leopardi, Lettere, edited by F. Flora, (Mondadori, Milan) 1949, p. 174
- ^ a b Fulvio Testi entry (in Italian) by Luigi Fassò in the Enciclopedia italiana, 1937 .
- ^ Vecchi, Giuseppe (1981). "Per una storia dei rapporti tra Modena, l'Europa dell'est e la Polonia nel campo della musica-teatro (sec. XVII–XVIII)". Musica, Teatro, Nazione Dall'Emilia All'Europa Nel Settecento. Modena: S.T.E.M.: 19.
- ISBN 978-8-81200032-6. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
Bibliography
- Leone, Marco (2019). "TESTI, Fulvio". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Slawinski, M. (2002). Testi, Fulvio. )
External links
- Italian Wikisource has original text related to this article: Autore:Fulvio Testi
- (in Italian) Quotes on Italian Wikiquote