Tommaso Grossi
Tommaso Grossi (born January 20, 1791 in Bellano , Province of Lecco , † December 10, 1853 in Milan ) was an Italian poet.
Tommaso Grossi studied law in Pavia and went to Milan in 1810, where he first drew attention to the new Austrian rule through a political-satirical poem written in the Milanese dialect.
He later had a novella in verse: La fuggitiva (1817), a tragic love episode from the French wars , and the poem Ildegonda (1820), with which he entered the area of medieval life, which was the romantic school that was also emerging in Italy at the time celebrated as the heyday of the Christian era and as a treasure trove of the most genuine poetic material.
The poem won over the female audience in particular due to the touching events and saw numerous editions. In 1826 G. published an epic poem: I Lombardi alla prima crociata (in 15 chants), in which he wanted to contrast the pagan epic of Torquato Tasso with a truly Catholic crusader poem ; but although the work appeared valuable, especially in relation to the language and the operative components, it did not offer sufficient interest in the plot and the characteristics.
Inspired by the well-known major work by Alessandro Manzoni , Grossi threw himself on the historical novel and delivered his Marco Visconti (1834; German von Fink, Schaffhausen 1859), whose importance is far more than that of Promessi sposi Manzoni through the name of a historical study is exhausted.
Amongst Grossi's lyrical attempts, the sensitive song La rondinella (German, Prague 1869) is well known and has become popular like few. Grossi concluded his poetic career with the poetic story Ulrico e Lida (1830).
He lived in the profession of notary from 1838 and died on December 10, 1853 in Milan. His marble bust was placed in the Brera courtyard . A collection of his individually still continuously reissued works was published in Milan in 1862 in 2 volumes.
Works
- Opere poetiche: I Lombardi alla poema crociata; Il degonda; La fuggitiva; Ulrico e Lida; La piaggia d'ora; La fuggitiva; In morte di Carlo Porta; La prineide in dialetto milanese; Aggiuntevi alcune poetry per la prima volta raccolte. Milano, Carrara, 1877 (1878).
literature
- Grossi Tommaso. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 77.
- Ignazio Cantù: Vita de opere di Tommaso Grossi . Milan, 1853.
- Raffaele Sirri Rubes: Opere poetiche. Tommaso Grossi . Napoli: Rossi, 1972.
- Marco Visconti: Tommaso Grossi . Milano: Arcipelago Ed., 1994. (Letteratura italiana 17). ISBN 88-7695-113-X
- Aurelio Sargenti (Ed.): Carteggio 1816 - 1853. Tommaso Grossi . Milano: Centro Nazionale Studi Manzoniani [u. a.], 2005. ISBN 88-87924-87-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Tommaso Grossi in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grossi, Tommaso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1791 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bellano |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1853 |
| Place of death | Milan |