Tommaso Stigliani

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Tommaso Stigliani
Tommaso Stigliani
Born(1573-06-28)28 June 1573
Matera, Kingdom of Naples
Died27 January 1651(1651-01-27) (aged 77)
Rome, Papal States
Alma materUniversity of Naples Federico II
Occupations
  • Poet
  • Literary critic
  • Writer
Parent(s)Giovan Domenico Stigliani and Geronima Stigliani (née d’Adamo)
Writing career
LanguageItalian
Literary movement
  • Baroque
  • Petrarchism
Notable worksIl mondo nuovo
Dello occhiale

Tommaso Stigliani (Italian: [tomˈmaːzo stiʎˈʎani]; 28 June 1573 – 27 January 1651) was an Italian poet, literary critic, and writer, best known for his enmity with Giambattista Marino.[1]

Biography

He was born in Matera, and educated in Naples where he met with the poets Torquato Tasso and Giambattista Marino. With the latter, Stigliani started a lifelong polemic and argument. Especially in Dello occhiale (Venice: Carempello, Sandro Bazacchi, 1627), Stigliani laments Marino's many “failures” in the poem Adone. Marino refused, Stigliani indignantly points out, to follow Aristotle's unities, ignoring the need for a proper beginning, middle, and an end. The poem is overwhelmed by superfluities, enthusiasms, and disproportion. In chapter 6, Stigliani regrets the way Marino “stumbles” through the episodes of Adonis and Venus. And so on, for more than 500 pages (there are tables at the end that list all of Marino's “errors”).[2]

Stigliani's contentious personality led him initially to seek employment in various courts of Northern Italy, including

Ranuccio Farnese; the mad people of the island of Brandana mirror the behavior of all the princes and courtiers who occupy every European Renaissance court. And since it is a poem, the shrewd poet can always defend himself by saying that the Mondo nuovo is, in part, a fictional work. According to Stigliani, the new world with all its faults such as cannibalism
and the freedom of sexual mores is, despite everything, better than the corruption and flaws which he finds in his contemporary Europe.

Thanks to his friendship with Galileo supporter Virginio Cesarini, Stigliani was given the task of editing Galileo's Saggiatore (The Assayer) (1623).[3] Stigliani died in Rome on 27 January 1651. His letters were published posthumously in 1661.[4]

Works

  • Stigliani, Tommaso (1600). Il Polifemo. Milano. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • ————— (1617). Il mondo nuovo (1 ed.). Piacenza. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • ————— (1628). Il mondo nuovo (2 ed.). Roma. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • ————— (1623). Il canzoniero del signor caualier fra' Tomaso Stigliani. Roma: per l'erede di Bartolomeo Zannetti.
  • ————— (1627). Dello occhiale opera difensiua del caualier fr. Tomaso Stigliani. Scritta in risposta al caualier Gio. Battista Marini. Dedicato all'eccellentiss. sig. conte D'Oliuares. Venezia. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • ————— (1651). Lettere del caualiere fra Tomaso Stigliani dedicate al sig. prencipe di Gallicano. Roma. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)

References

  1. ^ Slawinski 2002.
  2. ISBN 9780521843416
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  3. ^ Hester 2012, p. 208.
  4. ^ Scifoni, Felice (1849). Dizionario biografico universale [Universal Biographical Dictionary] (in Italian). Vol. 5. Florence: Davide Passagli. p. 171.

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