Bartolomeo Tortoletti (1560–1647) was an Italian poet and writer.
Life
Bartolomeo Tortoletti was born in
Verona
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in 1560. His parents’ names are not known. After obtaining his doctorate in theology, he settled permanently in Rome, where he became a member of the
Accademia degli Umoristi
The Accademia degli Umoristi (Academy of the Humorists) was a learned society of intellectuals, mainly noblemen, that significantly influenced the cultural life of 17th century Rome. It was briefly revived in the first half of the eighteenth cent ...
.
Until 1641 Tortoletti worked as secretary to Cardinal
Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia
Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia (5 January 1585 in Ferrara – 1 June 1641 in Rome) was an Italian cardinal of the Pio di Savoia family. He was the uncle of Cardinal Carlo Pio di Savoia.
Life
His father was Enea Pio di Savoia, Signore di Sassuolo ...
. His links with the
House of Savoy
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are also testified by the eulogy he delivered in 1624 upon
Emmanuel Philibert's death (''In obitu serenissimi principis Philiberti de Sabaudia'', Romae 1624).
His most fertile period of literary activity occurred during the reign of
Urban VIII
Pope Urban VIII ( la, Urbanus VIII; it, Urbano VIII; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death in July 1644. As po ...
. Member of the circle of Barberini’s proteges, he enjoyed Papal favour and became a close friend of some of the major intellectual personalities of the time, such as
Gabriel Naudè and
Daniël Heinsius
Daniel Heinsius (or Heins) (9 June 158025 February 1655) was one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance.
His youth and student years
Heinsius was born in Ghent. The troubles of the Spanish war drove his parents to settle first at ...
.
Tortoletti died in Rome in 1648. He wrote a
Latin
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tragedy
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in five acts, ''Agrippina major'', but he is best known for an
epic
Epic commonly refers to:
* Epic poetry, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation
* Epic film, a genre of film with heroic elements
Epic or EPIC may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and medi ...
on the Biblical character of
Judith (''Bartholomaei Tortoletti Iuditha vindex e vindicata'', 1628). He also wrote in
Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
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the tragedies ''Gionata'' (1624), ''Il giuramento o'vero Il Battista santo'', and ''La scena reale'' (1645), as well as ''Rime'' (1645).
Leo Allatius
Leo Allatius (Greek: Λέων Αλλάτιος, ''Leon Allatios'', Λιωνής Αλάτζης, ''Lionis Allatzis''; Italian: ''Leone Allacci, Allacio''; Latin: ''Leo Allatius, Allacius''; c. 1586 – January 19, 1669) was a Greek scholar, theolog ...
' ''Apes Urbanæ'' contains a complete catalogue of all the published and unpublished works of Tortoletti.
Main works
* ''Ossuniana conjuratio qua Petrus Ossunae regnum neapolitanum sibi desponderat'' (Venice, 1623 quarto);
* ''Iuditha Vindex et Vindicata''. An epic poem with commentary, it was first issued in Latin in 1628 by the Vatican press and again in 1648 in an expanded Italian edition, ''Giuditta Vittoriosa''; both were illustrated.
* ''Accademia Pompeiana, seu defensio magni Pompeii in administratione belli civilis'', a series of erudite debates with
Alessandro Guarini
Alessandro Guarini ( – 15 August 1636) was an Italian writer, jurist and diplomat. He is famous for his dialogue ''Il farnetico savio overo il Tasso'' (1610).
Biography
Alessandro was the eldest of the four sons of Giovanni Battista Guarini ...
(Rome, 1639, octavo).
Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 378.
Editions
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References
External links
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Italian poets
Italian male poets
1560 births
1647 deaths
Writers from Verona