1542 Italian Renaissance Luigi Alamanni Tuscan Opera

1542 Italian Renaissance Luigi Alamanni Tuscan Opera Italy

EX Rare & Valuable Opere Toscane / Venice Giunta edition

This is a wonderful and rare offering of the following work written in Italian

Main author: Alamanni, Luigi, 1495-1556.

Title details: Opere Toscane di Luigi Alamanni... 

Published: Venetijs (in Vinegia) : apud haeredes Lucae Antonij Iuntae (Stampato per Pietro Scheffer (Sceffer) Germano Moguntino (Maguntino), ad instantia delli heredi di M. Lucantonio giunta), 1542.

Other names: Giunta, Lucantonio I, heirs of, fl. 1538-1566, [publisher.]

Schoeffer, Peter II, fl. 1522-1542, [printer.]

Genre: Poetry

Poems - Italy - 16th century.

Language: Italian

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Publisher: Venetijs (in Vinegia) : apud haeredes Lucae Antonij Iuntae (Stampato per Pietro Scheffer (Sceffer) Germano Moguntino (Maguntino), ad instantia delli heredi di M. Lucantonio giunta), 1542.

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Luigi Alamanni (sometimes spelt Alemanni; 6 March 1495 – 18 April 1556) was an Italian poet and statesman.[1] He was regarded as a prolific and versatile poet, and is credited with introducing the epigram into Italian poetry.

[edit] Biography

Alamanni was born in Florence. His father was a devoted adherent of the Medici party, but Luigi, smarting under a supposed injustice, joined with others in an unsuccessful conspiracy against Giulio de' Medici, afterwards Pope Clement VII. He was obliged in consequence to take refuge in Venice, and, on the accession of Clement, to flee to France. When Florence shook off the papal yoke in 1527, Alamanni returned, and took a prominent part in the management of the affairs of the republic.

On the restoration of the Medici in 1530 he had again to take refuge in France, where he composed the greater part of his works. He was a favourite with Francis I, who sent him as ambassador to Charles V after the Peace of Crepy in 1544.

As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that, when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words:"l' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta" ("Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour"), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth. The ready reply pleased Charles, who added some complimentary words.

After the death of Francis, Alamanni enjoyed the confidence of his successor Henry II, and in 1551 was sent by him as his ambassador to Genoa. He died at Amboise on April 18, 1556.

He wrote a large number of poems, distinguished by the purity and excellence of their style. The best is a didactic poem, La Coltivazione (Paris, 1546), written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics. His Opere Toscane (Lyon, 1532) consists of satirical pieces written in blank verse. An unfinished poem, Avarchide, in imitation of the Iliad, was the work of his old age and has little merit.

It has been said by some that Alamanni was the first to use blank verse in Italian poetry, but the distinction belongs rather to his contemporary Giangiorgio Trissino.

[edit] Bibliography

A poetical romance, Girone il Cortese (Paris, 1548)

A tragedy, Antigone

A comedy, Flora

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