Iacopo Vittorelli

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Iacopo Vittorelli , also Jacopo (born November 10, 1749 in Bassano , Republic of Venice , † June 12, 1835 in Bassano , Austrian Empire ), was an Italian poet.

Life

Iacopo Vittorelli was educated by the Jesuits in his hometown and became an official of the Republic of Venice in Bassano. In the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy he was appointed to the Ministry of Education in Milan . Back in Bassano he exercised the book censorship under the Austro-Hungarian rule . In addition to his official work, Vittorelli wrote a large number of literary contributions and mainly poems.

Verses from his Anacreontic Poems to Irene (first published in 1784) were repeatedly set to music, for example during his lifetime by Franz Schubert and Vincenzo Bellini , as well as posthumously by Giuseppe Verdi , which nourished a little fame. Vittorelli translated the Batrachomachia from the Greek into Italian, from which his contemporary Giacomo Leopardi benefited.

His poetry is sweet and musical, but it lacks strength and depth. After Vittorelli's death, the contemporary Italian literary critic Luigi Carrer (1801–1850) decided that his life was unaffected by the political, ideological and armed conflicts of the time .

Among those honored with epigrams was his brother, Paolo Luigi Vittorelli, Archipetre in Bassano in 1809 . In Bassano a school and a street are named after Vittorelli.

Fonts (selection)

  • Anacreontic songs . Metr. translated into German by Franz Sachse von Rothenberg. Olomouc, 1838 (Vienna: Becks Universitätsbuchh.)
  • Opere edite e postume di Jacopo Vittorelli . Bassano: tipogr. di A. Roberti, 1841
  • Per le nobili ed illustri nozze Negri e Baseggio . Padova: Nella tip. del Seminario, 1822
  • Bassano, poemetto in versi sciolti . Bassano: Dalla Tip. Remondiniana, 1804
  • I Maccheroni: Poemetto giocoso; Aggiuntovi un'Inno catabile sul medesimo argomento del Sig. Da'Rogatis . In Venezia, 1803.
  • "Lo specchio", Poemetto di Jacopo Vittorelli . Contenuto nell'opera "Poemetti italiani", vol. XI Torino, Michel Angelo Morano, 1797

Settings (selection)

  • Vincenzo Bellini: Guarda che bianca luna: romanza
  • Teofilo Bucher: Se vedi che germoglia: arietta .
  • Franz Schubert: Non t'accostare all'urna and Guarda che bianca luna: romanza , in: Vier Canzonen, D 688 , with texts by Jacopo Vittorelli and Pietro Metastasio
  • Giacinto Marras : La brama: arietta . London: C. Lonsdale, 1850
  • Giuseppe Verdi: In solitaria stanza . For voice and pianoforte (before 1838) International Verdi Foundation
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Non t'accostare all'urna for voice and pianoforte (before 1838)
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Guarda che bianca luna . Notturno a tre voci con flauto e piano-forte (premiered February 26, 1839) Sheet music at WorldCat

literature

Web links

Commons : Jacopo Vittorelli  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Iacopo Vittorelli  - Sources and full texts (Italian)

Individual evidence

  1. in Constantin von Wurzbach: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , p. 81, the place of death is Milan. There are also deviations in the places of training and professional career.
  2. Manuale della Letteratura Italiana , Volume IV, 1894 p. 622 (it), there as Jacopo
  3. ^ Carrer quoted in A. D'Ancona, O. Bacci: Manuale della Letteratura Italiana , Volume IV, 1894 p. 622
  4. ^ Iacopo Vittorelli: Poetry. A cura di Attilio Simioni . Scrittori d'Italia, vol. 12, Laterza, Bari 1911, p. 356; P. 359