Francesco Bracciolini

Francesco Bracciolini (born November 26, 1566 in Pistoia , † August 31, 1646 there ) was an Italian writer .

Life

Francesco Bracciolini entered the clergy at the age of 40 and became secretary to Cardinal Maffeo Barberini , who later became Pope Urban VIII , whom he accompanied on his legation trip to Paris . Bracciolini later lived in his native city as a freelance writer and poet .

After Urban was elected Pope in 1623, he called Bracciolini to Rome and gave him the nickname dalle api ("from the bees") and the right to have the three bees of the House of Barberini in the coat of arms. After Urban's death, Bracciolini retired to Pistoia, where he died on August 31, 1646.

Of his poems, which are partly serious, partly comic, the comic epic Dello scherno de gli Dei ("Of the mockery of the gods") (first Florence 1618; best Milan 1828, 2 vols.), Is a mockery of the ancient World of gods, most famous.

His serious heroic poem La croce racquistata (“The reacquired cross”) in 35 cantos (first Florence 1618 and more often), which some critics previously assigned a place immediately after Tasso's “Gerusalemme”, was also very lucky . There are also some excellent eclogues by Bracciolini and a number of mixed “Poetry giocose” (most complete Flor. 1826, 2 vol.).

Works

• Ladies and harlots. Erotic stories. Illustrated by Otto Clevé . Bertelsmann-Verlag book no. 5858/8 (the book contains about 30 novellas by Bracciolini)