Giammaria Mazzuchelli

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Giovanni Maria Mazzuchelli , or Mazzucchelli (born October 28, 1707 in Brescia ; † November 19, 1765 there ), was an Italian man of letters , bibliographer , historian and mathematician .

Portrait of Giammaria Mazzuchelli on the Arco del Granarolo in Brescia

biography

He was born the son of Count Federico Mazzuchelli and Margherita Muzzi. Due to the poor health in early childhood, he first studied with a private teacher. He continued his studies in Bologna as a student of Francesco Saverio Quadrio and later in Padua as a student of Domenico Lazzarini, where he graduated in 1728. In the same year he married Barbara Chizzoli, an heiress whose dowry enabled him to devote himself to the study of history. Mazzucchelli's father bought Moggi's family house from the 16th century between Brescia and Lake Garda in 1722 and added the central building and the west wing some time later. As noted on the plaque between the central door frame of the vestibule and the tympanum, Giammaria finished construction in 1753. He died twelve days after the death of his wife.

Literary career

Historical and critical accounts of the life, inventions and writings of Archimedes of Syracuse. , 1737

He made his debut with numerous learned and accurate biographies of ancient and modern authors (e.g. Archimedes , Pietro Aretino , Lodovico Adimari , Luigi Alamanni , Matteo and Filippo Villani ). On the basis of this experience, he developed the extensive plan to collect the biographies of all Italian writers and the accounts of their works from the earliest times. He benefited from being the curator of the Biblioteca Queriniana , which was donated by Cardinal Angelo Maria Quirini in Brescia , and from his extensive correspondence with Italian and European scholars. He therefore began to compile a large encyclopedia of Italian writers, but the work remained unfinished because of the untimely death of the author

With this scientific work, Mazzuchelli paved the way for the history of Italian literature , as Girolamo Tiraboschi recognized in the introduction of his major work and later historians. Much of the material that Mazzuchelli could not use is still in manuscript in the Vatican Apostolic Library ; there is also a copy in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma .

Works

(Abstract)

  • Giovanni Maria Mazzucchelli: Notes istoriche e critiche intorno alla vita, alle invenzioni, ed agli scritti di Archimede siracusano . Ed .: Giammaria Rizzardi. Brescia 1737 (Italian, beic.it [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  • Giammaria Mazzuchelli: La vita di Pietro Aretino scritta dal conte Giammaria Mazzuchelli bresciano, decorata di sette tavole . Ed .: Francesco Sonzogno e Comp. Milan 1830 (Italian, google.at [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  • Giammaria Mazzuchelli: La vita di Pietro Aretino scritta dal conte Giammaria Mazzuchelli bresciano . Ed .: Giuseppe Comino. Padua 1741.
  • Lodovico Adimari: Satire del marchese Lodovico Adimari patrizio fiorentino, Edizione seconda in cui si aggiunge un elogio dell'autore tratto dal chiarissimo signor conte Giammaria Mazzucchelli . Amsterdam 1764 (Italian, google.it [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  • Giammaria Mazzuchelli: Cronica di Matteo e Filippo Villani, con le Vite d'uomini illustri fiorentini di Filippo e la Cronica di Dino Compagni . Nicolò Bettoni e Comp., Milan 1834 (Italian, google.it [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  • Giammaria Mazzuchelli: Gli scrittori d'Italia, cioè, Notes storiche e critiche intorno alle vite e agli scritti dei letterati italiani . Ed .: Bossini. tape I , no. 1 . Bossini, Brescia 1763 (Italian, google.it [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  • Giammaria Mazzuchelli: Gli scrittori d'Italia, cioè, Notes storiche e critiche intorno alle vite e agli scritti dei letterati italiani . Ed .: Bossini. tape I , no. 2 . Bossini, Brescia 1763 (Italian, google.it [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  • Giammaria Mazzuchelli: Gli scrittori d'Italia, cioè, Notes storiche e critiche intorno alle vite e agli scritti dei letterati italiani . Ed .: Bossini. tape II , no. 1 . Bossini, Brescia 1763 (Italian, google.it [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  • Giammaria Mazzuchelli: Gli scrittori d'Italia, cioè, Notes storiche e critiche intorno alle vite e agli scritti dei letterati italiani . Ed .: Bossini. tape II , no. 2 . Bossini, Brescia 1763 (Italian, google.it [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  • Giammaria Mazzuchelli: Gli scrittori d'Italia, cioè, Notes storiche e critiche intorno alle vite e agli scritti dei letterati italiani . Ed .: Bossini. tape II , no. 3 . Bossini, Brescia 1763 (Italian, google.it [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  • Giammaria Mazzuchelli: Gli scrittori d'Italia, cioè, Notes storiche e critiche intorno alle vite e agli scritti dei letterati italiani . Ed .: Bossini. tape II , no. 4 . Bossini, Brescia 1763 (Italian, google.it [accessed October 15, 2019]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Villa Mazzucchelli - History . Retrieved October 15, 2019. http://www.villamazzucchelli.it/villa/storia/
  2. ↑ Girolamo Tiraboschi: Storia della letteratura italiana di Girolamo Tiraboschi, della Compagnia di Gesù, bibliotecario del serenissimo Duca di Modena . Società tipografica, Modena 1782 (Italian, google.at [accessed October 15, 2019]).

literature

  • Louis-Maïeul Chaudon: Mazzuchelli (Conte Giovanni Maria) . In: Nuovo dizionario istorico, ovvero Istoria in compendio di tutti gli uomini, che si sono renduti celebri per talenti, virtù, sceleratezze, errori etc. dal principio del mondo sino a nostri giorni, Con varie tavole cronologiche, Composto da unatia soc . tape XVII . Michele Morelli, Naples 1791, p. 407-410 (Italian, google.it ).
  • Michele Marchesi (ed.): Carteggio tra Giammaria Mazzuchelli e Giovanni Degli Agostini (1739-1754) . Torre d'Ercole, Travagliato 2017, ISBN 978-88-96755-15-0 (Italian).

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personal data
SURNAME Mazzuchelli, Giammaria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mazzuchelli, Giovanni Maria; Mazzucchelli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and bibliographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH Brescia
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1765
Place of death Brescia