Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi (born April 28, 1766 in Vicopisano , † April 5, 1833 in Pisa ) was an Italian writer .

Life

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi came from a modest family background and spent his childhood in Calcinaia, after which he moved to nearby Pisa. He attended the archbishop's seminary, studied at the University of Pisa and received a doctorate in law. However, he preferred to be active in literature and poetry. He wrote many articles for the prestigious literary magazine Giornale de 'Letterati by Angelo Fabroni , founded in Pisa in 1771 . He gained a certain fame as a poet. His poems were included in the Parnaso dei Poeti Viventi and later published independently as poetry (2 vols., Pisa 1818). In 1794 died young Pisan poet Mara Luisa Cicci, with whom he was a close friend, he wrote a eulogy, he published the published as a preface to the 1796 in Parma posthumous edition of her poems erschien.1799 after the first incidence of French revolutionary troops in the Tuscany one Orazione politico-morale… in occasione del rendimento di grazia… per la fortunata liberazione della Toscana dalle armi francesi , which was applauded by Bettinelli .

Anguillesi held several administrative offices under the various governments that succeeded one another in Tuscany in the early 19th century. He was in the service of Grand Duchess Elisa Bonaparte , an older sister of Napoleon , whose secretary for Italian he was from 1809 to 1813. On her behalf, he wrote a memo storiche dei palazzi e ville appartenenti all'i. r. corona di Toscana (printed Pisa 1815), in which work he collected interesting historical information about various palaces belonging to the Tuscan crown, especially those under the Medici dynasty . For this he was given access to secret archives that had been kept under lock and key until then. When he presented his manuscript to the Grand Duchess, he received a golden box set with diamonds from her as a present. In 1811 he became a corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca, restored by Napoleon .

When the Grand Duchess Elisa left Tuscany in 1814, Joachim Murat appointed Anguillesi to replace the late professor Luca Antonio Pagnini as professor of Latin literature at the University of Pisa. Anguillesi could not take over the chair, however, as it was abolished as part of the reorganization of the Tuscan higher education system ordered by the Lorraine government, which soon returned. In 1824 Anguillesi was by Grand Duke Ferdinand III. appointed Chancellor of the University of Pisa. He was in correspondence with Angelo Maria Ricci , among others, and translated Chateaubriand's Génie de Christianisme and other French works into Italian.

Anguillesi died on April 5, 1833 at the age of almost 67 in Pisa. The canon Luigi della Fanteria published a funeral oration held in his memory under the title Elogio funebre di Giovanni Anguillesi Pisano (Pisa 1833).

literature

• Nicola Carranza:  Anguillesi, Giovanni Domenico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 3:  Ammirato – Arcoleo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1961.