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Carlo Pepoli
Count Carlo Pepoli (22 July 1796 – 7 December 1881) was an Italian politician and journalist. He was also acclaimed as a poet, his most well-known work being the libretto for Vincenzo Bellini's final opera, ''I puritani'' which was given its premiere in Paris in January 1835. Born in Bologna to the aristocratic Pepoli, Pepoli family, he was active in the movement opposing Austrian rule of Italy before being imprisoned and forced into exile in France after 1831. He spent a large portion of his adult life as an exile in both Paris, where he initially taught Italian. He also lived in England, where between 1839 and 1848, he was "Professore di Letteratura italiana" at University College, London. He returned to Italy briefly in 1848, then from 1859 resumed his political activities which continued to within a year of his death which took place in 1881 in his native city at the age of 85. Political activity in Italy Smart describes his activities in both Italy and France, and the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Pepoli
Count Carlo Pepoli (22 July 1796 – 7 December 1881) was an Italian politician and journalist. He was also acclaimed as a poet, his most well-known work being the libretto for Vincenzo Bellini's final opera, ''I puritani'' which was given its premiere in Paris in January 1835. Born in Bologna to the aristocratic Pepoli, Pepoli family, he was active in the movement opposing Austrian rule of Italy before being imprisoned and forced into exile in France after 1831. He spent a large portion of his adult life as an exile in both Paris, where he initially taught Italian. He also lived in England, where between 1839 and 1848, he was "Professore di Letteratura italiana" at University College, London. He returned to Italy briefly in 1848, then from 1859 resumed his political activities which continued to within a year of his death which took place in 1881 in his native city at the age of 85. Political activity in Italy Smart describes his activities in both Italy and France, and the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metastasio
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of ''opera seria'' libretti. Early life Metastasio was born in Rome, where his father, Felice Trapassi, a native of Assisi, had taken service in the Corsican regiment of the papal forces. Felice married a Bolognese woman, Francesca Galasti, and became a grocer in the ''Via dei Cappellari''. The couple had two sons and two daughters; Pietro was the younger son. Pietro, while still a child, is said to have attracted crowds by reciting impromptu verses on a given subject. On one such occasion in 1709, two men of distinction stopped to listen: Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, famous for legal and literary erudition as well as his directorship of the Arcadian Academy, and Lorenzini, a critic of some note. Gravina was attracted by the boy's poetic talent and personal charm, and made Pietro h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Senate Of The Kingdom Of Italy
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Mayors Of Bologna
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Italian Opera Librettists
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Italian Male Poets
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Italian Poets
List of poets who wrote in Italian (or Italian dialects). A * Antonio Abati * Luigi Alamanni *Aleardo Aleardi *Dante Alighieri * Cecco Angiolieri * Gabriele D'Annunzio *Ludovico Ariosto *Francis of Assisi B *Nanni Balestrini *Dario Bellezza * Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (Roman dialect) *Attilio Bertolucci *Carlo Betocchi * Alberta Bigagli * Giovanni Boccaccio * Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti *Carlo Bordini * Franco Buffoni *Michelangelo Buonarroti *Helle Busacca *Ignazio Buttitta (Sicilian language) * Paolo Buzzi C *Dino Campana * Giorgio Caproni *Giosuè Carducci * Guido Cavalcanti * Roberto Carifi * Gabriello Chiabrera * Compagnetto da Prato D * Antonio De Santis (Italian and Larinese dialect) *Milo de Angelis *Fabrizio De André * Eugenio De Signoribus E *Muzi Epifani F * Franco Fortini *Ugo Foscolo G *Alfonso Gatto *Giuseppe Giusti * Corrado Govoni *Guido Gozzano *Lionello Grifo *Giovanni Battista Guarini * Amalia Guglielminetti *Margherita Guidacci *Guido ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 Deaths
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1796 Births
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WorldCat
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Giacomo Leopardi
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (, ; 29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is considered the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and one of the most important figures in the literature of the world, as well as one of the principals of literary romanticism; his constant reflection on existence and on the human condition—of sensuous and materialist inspiration—has also earned him a reputation as a deep philosopher. He is widely seen as one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century but routinely compared by Italian critics to his older contemporary Alessandro Manzoni despite expressing "diametrically opposite positions." Although he lived in a secluded town in the conservative Papal States, he came into contact with the main ideas of the Enlightenment, and, through his own literary evolution, created a remarkable and renowned poetic work, related to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Certosa Di Bologna
The Certosa di Bologna is a former Carthusian monastery (or charterhouse) in Bologna, northern Italy, which was founded in 1334 and suppressed in 1797. In 1801 it became the city's Monumental Cemetery which would be much praised by Byron and others. In 1869 an Etruscan necropolis, which had been in use from the sixth to the third centuries BC, was discovered here. The Certosa is located just outside the walls of the city, near the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, at the foot of the Monte della Guardia and the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca. The church The church is dedicated to Saint Jerome (San Girolamo). The painting over the high altar is ''The Crucifixion'' by Bartolomeo Cesi; to the left is a ''Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane'' and to the right a ''Deposition'', also by Cesi. The wooden inlaid choir stalls were restored by Biagio De' Marchi in 1538 after a fire started by the Landsknechts of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. There is a series of large (450 x 350 cm) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
