Domenico Gisberti

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Domenico Gisberti (* 1635 in Murano ; † August 15, 1677 ibid) was a Venetian priest, poet and writer.

Life

Gisberti was a Catholic clergyman whose ancestral church was San Stefano in Murano. In 1671 he was elected the second priest of this church.

Because he was a well-known author of poetry and rhetoric and there was no reference to his spiritual status in his writings, he was mainly known as a philologist to his contemporaries . In addition to his mother tongue and Latin, he spoke six other languages, was well versed in the Artes and practiced painting, e. B. by copying Raphael and Rubens . In 1660 he founded a poetry academy in Murano, the Accademia degli Angustiati ("Academy of the Troubled"). Its members were mostly playwrights. He himself was also a member of the academies of scholars in Vienna, Munich, Rome, Parma and Padua.

In 1664 he accompanied Giorgio Cornaro, who was appointed ambassador of the Republic of Venice to the court of Emperor Leopold I in Vienna. After Cornaro's death in 1666, he returned to Venice. Elector Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria met him in 1667 on his trip to Italy; Since Gisberti had the reputation of an excellent poet and orator, he invited him to his court and Gisberti became secretary and court poet of the elector in Munich . In Munich he was also known as the father of the poor , he castigated himself through fasting and other deprivations, so that there were fears for his health.

In 1675 Gisberti returned to Murano with a high severance payment. In 1675 and 1676 he stayed in Rome. Pope Innocent XI. had liked to see him at his court, but Gisberti returned to his homeland and died there in 1677. He was solemnly buried in the Church of San Stefano.

Works

Librettist and poet

As a librettist, Gisberti has written texts for the operas by Johann Caspar von Kerll , Ercole Bernabei , Pietro Molinari, Giovanni Maria Pagliardi (“Il Caligola delirante”, Venice 1672) and Antonio Orefice . He has written nine volumes of poetry, each one dedicated to a muse, e.g. B. "Clio. Poetry eroiche sante, e profane ”. also published under “Le Nove Muse”. Moral theological writings, occasional poems about tournaments and celebrations, homage poems and stage plays also come from him.

Travel writer and chronicler

An outstanding work in contemporary history is the travel description of the electoral couple Ferdinand Maria von Bayern and Henriette Adelaide von Savojen and their children, eight-year-old Max Emanuel and ten-year-old Maria Anna von Bayern , to Maximilian Gandolph von Kuenburg in the Archbishopric of Salzburg , prepared by Gisberti in 1670 . The work is written as a letter novel (consisting of 27 letters); fictional addressee is Carlo Emanuele II Duke of Savoy , the brother of Electress Henriette Adelaide.

Elector Ferdinand Maria (1636–1679) and his wife Henriette Adelaide (1636–1676)

The journey begins on August 18, 1670 and ends with letters from September 12 and 13, in which only general information about the history of Salzburg and the court of the archbishop is given.

The tour company consisted of around 500 people, including people from the nobility, noble boys, lackeys, chambermaids, trumpeters, personal physicians, pharmacists, confessors, cooks, plate and silver washers, skewers, poultry cleaners, confectioners, men to set up the tabernacles and kitchen tents, barbers, Hairdressers, grooms and single-horse men. The journey is started by carriages, on horseback and with supply and equipment wagons. Everything that can serve the comfort of the royal couple is charged (tables, chairs, linen, musical instruments, dishes, silverware, glasses, cutlery and, of course, sufficient food). This also shows the considerable logistical effort that had to be mastered (e.g. quartermakers riding ahead, leaf hut builders, etc.).

The outward journey led via Zorneding , Ebersberg , Wasserburg am Inn , Chiemsee , Traunstein , Reichenhall and Walserberg to Salzburg .

The travelogue is full of detailed descriptions of landscapes and cities, whereby the author emphasizes some special features that catch his eye, e.g. B. Dugout canoes at Chiemsee or a replica of the ship Bucintoro there . In Traunstein and Reichenhall , it is the brine pipelines and brine boilers that have caught his interest. In Walserberg, the electoral tour company is greeted by the archbishop and accompanied by 400 cannon shots from the Hohensalzburg fortress to the old residence , where the princely family takes up quarters. In view of the buildings ( cathedral , Neue Residenz , Residenzbrunnen ), he was the first to shape the comparison, often quoted later, that Salzburg was a “little Rome”. The next few days pass with a bear hunt at Mirabell Palace and visits to Hellbrunn , where the Hellbrunn trick fountains and the fermenting mouth shown there particularly impressed him. Other places of residence are Hallein , Golling and Blühnbach , with deer and chamois hunts being invited. Back in Salzburg, in honor of the distinguished visitor , there will be a theater performance held in Latin ( Corona laboriosae Heroum virtuti imposita ), a boat jump on the Salzach and, at the end, a fireworks display with lots of floating lights on the Salzach.

The return journey is made by ship to Burghausen and then on horseback to Altötting . This is where the traveling party splits, the royal couple travels with part of their entourage via Mühldorf am Inn , Schwindegg , Kopfsberg and Markt Schwaben to Munich. The remaining part rides via Haag in Upper Bavaria and other places to Munich. The author does not forget to note that the “Electoral Highnesses arrived in Munich in the best of health”.

Other works

Other works he wrote in Bavaria are a bishop's catalog of the Freising diocese , a genealogy of the Bavarian dukes and, in 1671, a chronology of the abbots, bishops and archbishops of Salzburg.

Honors

After Gisberti is Calle Domenico Gisberti named in Murano.

Fonts

  • Domenico Gisberti: The journey of the most noble electoral family from Bavaria to Salzburg divided into day trips, and brought to the attention of His Royal Highness of Savoy in letters. Johannes Jäcklin, Munich 1670.
  • Domenico Gisberti: Erato: Poetry liriche. Giovanni Jecklino, Monaco 1670.
  • Domenico Gisberti; Stamperia Camerale; Lupardi, Bartolomeo: Il Caligola dramma per musica, rappresentato in Roma nel nuouo teatro di Tor di Nona nel presente anno 1674. Stamparia della Reu, Rome 1674.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Schrattenecker: Introduction, pp. 7-23. In Domenico Gisberti: The journey of the most noble electoral family from Bavaria to Salzburg in 1670. Salzburg Museum (Ed.), Salzburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-900088-23-1 .
  2. ↑ La Barbarie del caso. Libretto. Venice, 1664.
  3. ↑ Clio. Poetry eroiche sante, e profane di Domenico Gisberti, segretario del serenissimo Ferdinando Maria, duca delle due Baviere
  4. ↑ Le Nove Muse.
personal data
SURNAME Gisberti, Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venetian priest, poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Murano
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1677
Place of death Murano