Alessandro Tassoni

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Alessandro Tassoni
Alessandro Tassoni, Monument in front of the Modena Cathedral

Alessandro Tassoni (born September 28, 1565 in Modena , † April 25, 1635 there ) was an Italian poet . His best known work is La secchia rapita .

life and work

Tassoni studied in Bologna and Ferrara law . In 1589 he became a member of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence and in 1597 in Rome secretary of Cardinal Ascanio Colonna , whom he accompanied to Spain in 1600 . Sent back to Rome by the cardinal in his personal affairs, he settled there entirely and was accepted into the academies of the Umoristi and Lincei .

A first result of his work was his Considerazioni sopra le rime del Petrarca , written in Modena in 1609 , which embroiled him in a violent literary feud, but which earned him the merit of putting an end to the excessive veneration of Petrarch and the reputation of his clumsy imitators. His Pensieri diversi , written in Rome in 1612 , in which he attacked Homer and Aristotle , caused hardly less attention . In 1622 he wrote his best-known work in Paris , the heroic-comic poem La secchia rapita , which deals with the bucket war between the Modenese and the Bolognese in the 13th century .

In the same year he entered the service of Karl Emanuel of Savoy , but after a long wait his promotion was prevented by intrigues , he withdrew into private life until Cardinal Lodovisio made him his secretary in 1626 and after the death of Cardinal Francis I of Modena appointed him his chamberlain in 1632 . Tassoni died in 1635.

Fonts (selection)

Letters
Works
  • The Stolen Bucket (Selected Library of Foreign Classics; Vol. 14). Leipzig 1842 (translated by Paul Ludolf Kritz).

literature

  • Elizabeth Cropper: Ancient and moderns. Alessandro Tassoni, Francesco Scannelli, and the experience of modern art . In: Annali di critica d'Arte , Vol. 5 (2009), pp. 81-101, ISSN  2279-557X
  • Gregor von Glasenapp : Alessandro Tassoni and his “Stolen Bucket”. A 17th century Italian poet . Lincke Verlag, Berlin 1910.
  • Erich Loos : Alessandro Tasoni's “La secchia rapita” and the problem of the heroic-comic epic. Fritz Neubert on his 80th birthday (writings and lectures by the Petrarca Institute ; vol. 20). Scherpe Verlag, Krefeld 1967.
  • Stephanie Neu: Alessandro Tassoni (1565–1635). Metamorphoses of the Epic (Basics of Italian Studies; Vol. 16). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-62112-7 (also dissertation, University of Hamburg 2012).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Membership list of the Crusca
personal data
SURNAME Tassoni, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1565
PLACE OF BIRTH Modena
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1635
Place of death Modena