Lodovico Dolce

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Signet of the printer Gabriele Giolito de 'Ferrari, for whom Lodovico Dolce worked for 36 years.

Lodovico Dolce (* 1508 in Venice ; † 1568 ibid) was an Italian humanist , poet , writer , translator and art theorist .

life and work

Dolce, who comes from a branch of a renowned Venetian family, received an education in Venice and Padua with the support of the rich Loredan and Cornaro families after he was an orphan at an early age . Due to the extensive education he gained in this way and in particular because of his language skills and competence, he then worked for the Venetian printer office of Gabriele Giolito de 'Ferrari until his death . His tasks there were varied and heterogeneous: Dolce supervised editions, translated - often for the first time ever - ancient classics into the Italian vernacular and published his own writings. He is one of the so-called Italian Polyhistorii . He is particularly well known today as the author of the Dialogo della pittura intitolato l'Aretino , published by Giolito in 1557 , one of the most important art treatises of the Cinquecento . In addition, he is heavily involved in the development and distribution of the imprint and the emblem through various writings . He owes the title “Divina” in Dante's “Commedia” (Venice: Ferrari 1555).

According to a more recent estimate, Dolce was responsible for at least 96 of his own works, 202 editions by other authors and 54 translations during his time at Giolito. The modern authors he edited include figures such as Dante Alighieri , Francesco Petrarca , Giovanni Boccaccio , Mario Equicola , Baldassare Castiglione , Pietro Bembo , Ludovico Ariost and Bernardo Tasso . The ancient writers translated by Dolce include Homer , Aristotle , Euripides , Catullus , Cicero , Horace , Ovid , Juvenal , Seneca and Virgil . After his death in 1568, Lodovico Dolce was buried in the Venetian church of San Luca , but his grave can no longer be found today.

Modern editions (selection)

  • Lodovico Dolce, Dialogo del modo di accrescere e conservar la memoria , ed. by Andrea Torre, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2001
  • Lodovico Dolce, I quattro libri delle Osservationi , ed. by Paola Guidotti, Pescara, Libreria dell'Università Editrice, 2004
  • Lodovico Dolce, Terzetti per le "Sorti". Poesia oracolare nell'officina di Francesco Marcolini , ed. by Paolo Procaccioli, Treviso, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche-Viella, 2006
  • Lodovico Dolce, Tieste , ed. by Stefano Giazzon, Turin, RES Editrice, 2010 ( ISBN 978-88-85323-58-2 )

literature

  • Claudia Di Filippo Bareggi, Il mestiere di scrivere: Lavoro intellettuale e mercato librario a Venezia nel Cinquecento , Rome, Bulzoni, 1988
  • Giovanna Romei:  Dolce, Lodovico. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 40:  DiFausto – Donadoni. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1991.
  • Mark W. Roskill, Dolce's Aretino and Venetian art theory of the Cinquecento , University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2000
  • Anne Neuschäfer, Lodovico Dolce as a dramatic author in Venice in the 16th century , Frankfurt am Main, Klostermann, 2004 ( ISBN 978-3-465-03036-2 )
  • Gudrun Rhein, The Dialogue About Painting. Lodovico Dolce's treatise and the art theory of the 16th century. With a new translation with commentary , Cologne, Weimar a. Vienna, Böhlau Verlag, 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-412-20138-8 )

proof

  1. ↑ Di Filippo Bareggi 1988, p. 58.

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personal data
SURNAME Dolce, Lodovico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian humanist, writer, poet, translator and art theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1508
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH 1568
Place of death Venice