Clemente Bondi

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Clemente Donnino Luigi Bondi (born June 27, 1742 in Mezzano Superiore , † June 20, 1821 in Vienna ) was an Italian poet and translator .

life and work

Clemente Bondi entered the Jesuit order in 1760 and became professor of eloquence at the seminary in Parma at a very young age . Hosted by the congregation for celebrating the abolition of the order (1773) in an allegorical canzone , he had to hide in Tyrol for a while . Returning to Italy, he lived in Venice , Mantua and finally in Milan , where he found a patron in Archduke Ferdinand . In 1797 he appointed him his librarian in Brno and entrusted him with the upbringing of his sons. Through this relationship he came to Vienna permanently in 1810, where he became a teacher of history and literature to Maria Ludovika , the third wife of Emperor Franz who died in 1816 . He died of dropsy in Vienna on June 20, 1821 at the age of 79.

Bondi's poems belong to the lyrical, didactic, satirical and elegiac genre and are characterized by a noble style and lightness of versification. Among other things, he composed his now famous Giornata villereccia (1773) in three chants, a comical description of the rural joys of the Konviktualen. His longer poems also include La felicità (1775), Il governo pacifico , La moda (1777) and Le conversazioni (1778). Among his translations are those of Ovid's Metamorphoses , particularly those of Virgil's Aeneid (splendid edition in 2 volumes, Parma 1793). All of his own poems appeared in 1778 in 2 volumes in Padua , in 1798 in 6 volumes in Venice and in 1808 in a splendid edition in 3 volumes in Vienna.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Bondi, Clemente
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bondi, Clemente Donnino Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Mezzano Superiore
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1821
Place of death Vienna