Luigi Tansillo
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Luigi Tansillo (1510 – 1 December 1568) was an Italian Late Renaissance poet. Tansillo deserves a special place in the history of Italian poetry, for he constitutes the link between the classical lyric of the Cinquecento and the baroque lyric of the Seicento.[1]
Biography
Luigi Tansillo was born in
Pedro Álvarez de Toledo. From this point until 1553, Tansillo accompanied don Pedro and his son don García (captain of the Neapolitan fleet from 1535) on numerous military and political missions in the Mediterranean.[3] In 1551 the poet married Luisa Puccio and published his first collection of poems, the Sonetti per la presa d'Africa. In 1561 he was appointed governor of Gaeta, a position he kept until his death.[4] Tansillo was in contact with Annibale Caro and Benedetto Varchi, and became a member of the Florentine Accademia degli Umidi in 1544.[2] He died in Teano on 1 December 1568, aged 58.[2]
Work
Tansillo began his literary career with the publication of the
didactic poem La balia (‘The nurse’, 1552) and Il podere (‘The farm’, 1560), an idyll celebrating serene country life inspired by Columella. Tansillo's fame depends principally on the religious epic Le lagrime di San Pietro (‘The tears of Saint Peter’, 1585), a poem in fifteen cantos of ottava rima imbued with Counter-Reformation moral and religious fervour which is now best known as the model for Malherbe
's Les Larmes de saint Pierre (1587).
Legacy
Tansillo is considered the most important Southern Italian
Le lagrime di San Pietro. William Roscoe
’s translation of Tansillo's Nurse appeared in 1798, and went through several editions.
Works
- I due pellegrini (1530)
- Il vendemmiatore (1532–1534)
- Stanze a Bernardino Martirano (1540)
- Clorida (1547)
- La Balia (1552)
- Il podere (1560)
- Le lagrime di San Pietro(1585)
- Liriche
- Il Canzoniere. Tansillo's Canzoniere, the result of a lifetime's work, was only published in 1711.[5]
References
Sources
- Ambrosoli, Francesco (1863). Manuale della Letteratura Italiana. Vol. II (2 ed.). Florence: G. Barbèra Editore.
- Cannata, Nadia (2002). "Tansillo, Luigi". In Peter Hainsworth; David Robey (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- Milburn, Erika (2003). Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-century Naples. Leeds: Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association. ISBN 1-902653-97-1.
- Toscano, Tobia R. (2019). "Tansillo, Luigi". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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