Diomede Borghesi

Diomede Borghesi (* 1540 in Siena , † January 28, 1598 ibid) was an Italian poet and Romanist .

life and work

Borghesi studied in Siena, was exiled to Portoferraio for two years and was in Mantua the protégé of Cardinal Federico Gonzaga (1540–1565). After his death he stayed in numerous cities in Italy (between Turin , Venice and Rome ), but especially in Padua , where he communicated with Sperone Speroni and Francesco Piccolomini (1520-1604) in the vicinity of Scipione Gonzaga .

Ferdinando I de 'Medici , Grand Duke of Tuscany , made Borghesi his chamberlain in 1588 and in 1590 appointed him to the newly established chair of the Tuscan language at the University of Siena . This was also the very first Italian chair for the Italian language (successor: Celso Cittadini ). Borghesi published disordered observations on Italian under the title Lettere discorsive (3 vols., Padua 1584, Venice 1584 and Siena 1603), but the synthesis that had been announced never appeared. Borghesi is now forgotten as a poet.

Other works

• Orazioni accademiche , ed. by Carlo Caruso, Pisa 2009

literature

• Gian Luigi Beccaria:  BORGHESI, Diomede. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 12:  Bonfadini – Borrello. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1970.
• Lettere di Diomede Borghesi , ed. by Giuseppe Campori, Bologna 1868, 1968
• Salvatore Valente, Diomede Borghesi. Lirico e grammatico del secolo 16 , Bari 1905
• Alessandra Cappagli, Diomede Borghesi e Celso Cittadini lettori di toscana favella, in: Tra Rinascimento e strutture attuali. Saggi di linguistica italiana, Atti del Primo Convegno della Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana, Siena 28-31 March 1989 , ed. by L. Giannelli, N. Maraschio, T. Poggi Salani and M. Vedovelli, Turin 1991, pp. 23-35

Web links

• Literature by and about Diomede Borghesi in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)