Bandino Gualfreducci (1565–1627) was an

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Biographie

Bandino Gualfreducci was born at

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, joined the Jesuits, and taught

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for six years at the

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. Later he became Latin Secretary to the General of the Order, and finally, near the end of his life, retired to the Jesuits' house in Rome, where he died.

Works

Bandino Gualfreducci wrote a considerable amount of

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verse, principally

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. He was author of several Latin poems of religious content and of some theatrical pieces that were performed at the Roman College. His miscellaneous verse was collected in the following volume: ''Variorum Carminum libri sex. Sophoclis Oedipus Tyrannus eodem interprete''. Rome (apud heredem Barth. Zannetti), 1622. Gualfreducci took an unusual interest in the

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; and it may well be that it was owing to his interest that it came to play a part in Jesuit education.. The sixth book of his ''Carmina'' is wholly made up of translations from the

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arranged roughly in the order of the Planudean collection. The section is headed: 'E Graeco libro Anthologiae.' These translations in many instances are the same as those published in the ''Selecta Epigrammata'' of 1608''Selecta Epigrammata ex Florilegio et alia quaedam ex Veteribus Poetis comicis potissimum Latino carmine conversa''. Rome, 1608. Pp. 363 + under the initials 'B. Gu.,' and it seems probable that Gualfreducci was the editor of that Selection. Gualfreducci's collection includes also a Latin version of

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' ''

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''.

List of works

* ''Hieromenia seu sacri menses'', Rome, 1622, 1625, in-12: a collection of

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in praise of every

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celebrated by the Church every day of the year. * ''Variorum carminum libri sex'', ibid., 1622, in-12
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. * ''Sigeris, Tragœdia'', ibid., 1627, in-12. * ''Oratio de Passione Domini'', ibid., 1641, in-12.

Notes

Bibliography

* Carlos Sommervogel: ''Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus'', vol. 3, p. 1898
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