Niccolò Arrighetti (writer)

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Niccolò Arrighetti (born November 11, 1586 in Florence , † May 29, 1639 ibid) was an Italian writer .

Life

Niccolò Arrighetti devoted himself to studies of Plato's philosophy , but also distinguished himself as a mathematician and man of letters. He was a student and friend of Galileo Galilei . He was also a member of the Accademia Fiorentina , whose consul he was to succeed Galileo in 1623, and the Accademia della Crusca . He wrote a panegyric on Filippo Salviati ( Delle lodi del signore Filippo Salviati , Florence 1614) as well as an eulogy on the occasion of the death of Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany ( Delle lodi di Cosimo II, Granduca di Toscana , Florence 1621) and another for the Burial of Cosimo's widow Maria Magdalena of Austria ( Orazione recitata al serenissimo Granduca di Toscana Ferdinando II, nell 'esequie della Granduchessa sua madre , Florence 1631). All these speeches were included in the Prose Fiorentine as well as Arrighetti's cicalate - half serious, half cheerful treatises, as they were popular at the time - on cucumbers and tarts.

Like his cousin Andrea Arrighetti, a student of Benedetto Castelli and as an engineer, he was the superintendent of the fortresses of Tuscany, in 1630 in disputes about river straightening between Galileo's students and Galileo himself on the one hand (who opposed it with dubious physical arguments) and the engineer Alessandro Bartolotti on the other hand involved. Bartolotti was in favor of straightening a tributary of the Arno to prevent flooding, the Arrighettis, Mario Guiducci and Galilei against it.

Arrighetti was one of the founding members of the Accademia Platonica , which was rebuilt in 1638 by the Grand Duke Ferdinando II. De 'Medici and the Prince and later Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici . He wrote and delivered the inaugural address on the occasion of the reopening of the Academy ( Orazione di Niccolò Arrighetti fatta da lui nel dar principio a spiegar Platone, al Serenissimo Principe Leopoldo di Toscana ). At that time he also translated Plato's dialogues into Tuscan in order to be able to give over these lectures. Shortly before the end of this work, however, he died in 1639. He had also left numerous works in prose and verse form as manuscripts. His nephew Carlo Dati praised him on May 13, 1643 in the Accademia della Crusca.

literature

  • Antonella Dolci:  Arrighetti, Niccolò. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 4:  Arconati-Bacaredda. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1962.
  • Arrighetti (Nicolas) , in: Louis Gabriel Michaud (Hrsg.): Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne , 2nd edition 1843 ff., Vol. 2, p. 291 f.
  • Arrighetti, Nicolò . In: The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , Vol. 3, 2 (1844), p. 642

Remarks

  1. ^ Antonella Dolci:  Arrighetti, Niccolò. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 4:  Arconati-Bacaredda. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1962.
  2. ^ Entry in the Catalogo degli Accademici der Cruca.
  3. ↑ a b Arrighetti (Nicolas) , in: Louis Gabriel Michaud (ed.): Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne , 2nd edition 1843 ff., Vol. 2, p. 291 f.
  4. ^ A b Arrighetti, Nicolò . In: The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , Vol. 3, 2 (1844), p. 642.
  5. ^ Domenico Meli, Thinking with Objects. The transformation of mechanics in the seventeenth century, Johns Hopkins University Press 2006, p. 85
personal data
SURNAME Arrighetti, Niccolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1586
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1639
Place of death Florence