Luigi Groto

Luigi Groto (born September 7, 1541 in Adria (Veneto) , † December 13, 1585 in Venice ) was a blind Italian poet.

Groto, called il Cieco d'Adria ( the blind man of Adria ), lost sight eight days after his birth , but nevertheless pursued philosophical and literary studies with such success that he was able to appear as a public speaker at the age of 15.

In 1565 he was appointed president of the newly founded Akademie der Illustrati zu Adria; he died on December 13, 1585 in Venice, after he had played the role of the blind king Oedipus in the theater there shortly before .

His works are:

• Orazione (Orationi volgari et latine) (Venice 1586 and more often; newly edited by Carlo Bocchi, Venice 1817);
• La Calisto , shepherd's drama (Venice 1575); the tragedies
• La Hadriana (Venice 1582),
• La Dalida (Venice 1583) and
• Isac, Rappresentation Nuova (Venice 1607); the comedies
• La Emilia (Venice 1572),
• Il Thesoro (Venice 1583) and
• La Alteria (Venice 1587); also: Canzone nella morte del clar. M. Agostin Barbarigo (Venice 1572), Delle Rime (Venice 1587), translations, letters ( Lettere famigliari , Venice 1616) etc.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Grotto (Groto), Luigi . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 5th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski & C. Dittmarsch.), Vienna 1859, p. 376 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Luigia Zilli: La ricezione francese del "Pentimento amoroso", pastorale di Luigi Groto, Cieco d'Adria . Udine: Doretti, 1984.
• Giovanni Benvenuti: Il cieco di Adria. Vita ed opere di Luigi Grotto . Sala Bolognese: Forni, 1984.
• Giorgio Brunello: Luigi Groto e il suo tempo (Volume 1) [curatori dell 'opera: Giorgio Brunello]. Vol .: 1, Atti del convegno di studi, Adria, April 27-29, 1984. Rovigo: Minelliana, 1987.
• Giorgio Brunello: Opere (Luigi Groto) (Volume 2). Rovigo: Minelliana, 1987.
• Andrea Mott-Petavrakis: Studies on Luigi Groto's lyric work . Hamburg: Roman. Seminar d. Univ. Hamburg, 1992 (dissertation).