Matteo Maria Boiardo

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Matteo Maria Boiardo

Matteo Maria Boiardo (Latin: Matthaeus Boiardus ; * 1441 in Scandiano , † December 19, 1494 in Reggio nell'Emilia ) was an Italian poet.

Count Matteo Maria Boiardo was born into a noble family in Scandiano. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , who caused a sensation as the “first Western Kabbalist ”, was his much younger cousin, Tito Vespasiano Strozzi , another poet of the widely vaunted court of muses in Ferrara, his uncle. After thorough training in the ancient languages, etc. a. also oriental, he served in Ferrara , Modena and Reggio with the ducal family of the Este .

Boiardo began his literary career around 1461 with Latin verse, poems in praise of the Estonians and pastoral poems in the footsteps of Virgil's Eclogen . He translated the novel Metamorphoses of Apuleius and other Latin writings into Italian. His main Italian works are Amorum libri tres and Orlando innamorato .

Amorum libri , 1499

The canzoniere (Amorum libri tres) contains three parts with sonnets and lyrical love poems in other forms. They are about Boiardo's love for Antonia Caprara , whom he met in 1469 in Reggio at the court of Sigismondo d'Este . The title is borrowed from Ovid . The Orlando innamorato is Boiardo's most mature work, which he began in 1476. The material of the work is related to the European knight poetry about the Holy Grail , the main hero Orlando corresponds to the German hero Roland from the Charlemagne saga. In 1483 Boiardo published the first two parts of the work (60 poems) in Reggio. Due to official duties and political events, he was prevented from working and was unable to complete the work. With the work Boiardo established his fame as the greatest Italian poet of the 15th century, his Orlando was continued by Ariost's Orlando Furioso (also in Ferrara), who surpassed his predecessor and overshadowed him early on with even greater recognition.

A smaller work, a poem about an unusual self-composed tarot game from the 15th century, has significance for the mysterious origin of these cards.

Text editions and translations

  • Steano Carrai (Ed.): Matteo Maria Boiardo: Pastoralia. Antenore, Padova 1996, ISBN 88-8455-167-6 (critical edition with Italian translation)
  • Mehltretter, Florian: The amorous Roland of Matteo Maria Boiardo. Lyrik Kabinett , Munich 2009

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SURNAME Boiardo, Matteo Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1441
PLACE OF BIRTH Scandiano
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1494
Place of death Reggio nell'Emilia