Scipione Maffei

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Scipione Maffei

Scipione Maffei , also Francesco Scipione Maffei (born June 1, 1675 in Verona , † February 11, 1755 ibid) was an Italian poet and scholar of the Baroque era .

Life

Maffei came from a respected Bolognese family, the marchesi Maffei. He studied in Parma and (since 1698) Rome , where he joined the Accademia dell'Arcadia . He then established an “Arcadian Academy” in his hometown of Verona.

From 1703 he volunteered on the Bavarian side in the War of the Spanish Succession and took part in the Battle of Schellenberg in 1704 . His brother Alessandro Maffei served as a general in the Bavarian army.

In 1709 he went to Padua, where he worked with Apostolo Zeno and Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730) on the edition of the Giornale de 'Letterati d'Italia . He then switched to poetry and created a much-played masterpiece with his tragedy Merope in 1714, which established a revival of Italian drama in the eighteenth century. In 1790 a complete edition of his works in twenty-eight volumes was published in Venice .

Museo Lapidario Maffeiano in Verona

Since a stay in Turin in 1710 Maffei worked as an art collector and carried out archaeological studies on his hometown. In 1716 the project for a Museo Lapidario , today's Museo Lapidario Maffeiano, was created . Between 1718 and 1727 a first version of an exhibition of Maffei's collection of Greek, Etruscan, Roman and early Venetian inscriptions, reliefs, urns, sarcophagi and sculptures was prepared. A first exhibition was revised in the following years and brought to a conclusion in 1745.

From 1732 to 1736 Scipione Maffei toured France, England, the Netherlands and Germany. In Paris he was accepted into the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , in 1736 he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University . He was also one of the first members of the Accademia degli Agiati in Rovereto. In 1748 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences . He achieved musical historical significance with a treatise on the first pianos by Bartolomeo Cristofori . He was friends with Francesco Algarotti .

Survival

  • The Liceo Maffei in Verona is named after him.

Works

  • Per la nascita del principe di Piemonte genteliaco. Rome 1699.
  • Conclusioni di amore. Verona 1702.
  • La prima radunanza della colonia arcadica Veronese. Cervia, 1705.
  • La scienza cavalleresca. Rome 1710. (Treatise against noble dueling).
  • De fabula equestris ordinis Constantiniani. Zurich 1712 / Paris 1714.
  • Merope. Tragedy. Venice 1713.
  • Dell 'antica condizione di Verona. Venice 1719.
  • Istoria diplomatica. Mantua 1727 (with original documents).
  • Teatro del Marchese Maffei. Venice 1730.
  • Verona illustrata. 2 vols. Verona 1732.
  • Galliae antiquitates quaedam selectae. Paris 1733 (French inscription, dedicated to King Louis XV).
  • Graecorum siglae lapidariae collectae atque explicatae. Verona 1746.
  • The formazione dei fulmini. Verona 1747.
  • Il Raguet. Comedy. Verona 1787.
  • Veronense Museum. Verona 1749.
  • Supplemento al Tesoro delle Inscrizioni di Muratori. Lucca 1765.

literature

Web links

Commons : Scipione Maffei  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Academy ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in Italian
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Scipione de Marchese Maffei. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on May 1, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Maffei, Scipione
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maffei, Francesco Scipione (full name); Brenteatico, Orillo (pseudonym); Pindemonte, Desiderato (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1675
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1755
Place of death Verona