Girolamo Ruggia

Morcote ( county Paradiso , Lugano District , Ticino , Switzerland) with Monte Arbostora (1978)

Girolamo Ruggia SJ (born September 30, 1748 in Morcote , † May 29, 1823 in Bologna ) was a Swiss Jesuit and university teacher.

Life

Girolamo Ruggia was the son of Giovanni Antonio Ruggia and his wife Elisabetta Sardi.

He studied at the University of Venice and the University of Rome and then taught humanistic subjects in Ascoli . After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773, he moved to the Veneto as a private tutor and later taught rhetoric at the pre-university educational institution for aristocrats , the Collegio dei Nobili in Parma .

From 1816 he held the chair for spiritual eloquence, eloquenza sacra, at the University of Bologna and held lectures there until his death.

Writing

For the most part, his oeuvre comprised religious and secular poems, most of which are contained in his two-volume work Poesie dell'abate Girolamo Ruggia , along with the tragedy Demetrio . In addition, he wrote speeches, the short epic La coltura del cuore , cantata texts and dramatic seals. He published his writings almost exclusively in Parma and Bologna.

His text Pianto d'Armonia sulla morte d'Orfeo , written in 1808, was set as a cantata by Gioacchino Rossini , who was a student at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna at the time .

Fonts (selection)

• Poetry dell'abate Girolamo Ruggia . Parma 1806.
• La coltura del cuore . Bologna 1809.
• Pel ritorno della casa Estense agli ereditarii suoi stati. Cantata . 1814.
• Delle cause che indipendentemente dalle umane vicende depravano l'elo ordered, e la poesia: orazione . 1821.

literature

• Stefano Barelli: Girolamo Ruggia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 3, 2009 , accessed January 28, 2020 .
• Flavio Zanetti: Girolamo Ruggia, 1748-1823. Istituto grafico G. Casagrande, Bellinzona 1961.

Web links

• Girolamo Ruggia's writings on worldcat.org/identities/