Giovanni Argoli (1 July 1609 – 1660) was an Italian scholar and poet.
Biography
Giovanni was the son of a well-known mathematician,
Andrea Argoli
Andrea Argoli (1570–1657), born in Tagliacozzo, was a versatile Italian scholar. He was a jurist, mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and medical writer. His father was Ottavio and his son, Giovanni.
He was professor of mathematics at ...
, and was born at
Tagliacozzo
Tagliacozzo ( Marsicano: ') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, central Italy.
History
Tagliacozzo lies in an area inhabited in early historic times by the Aequi and the Marsi, although the first mentions of the town ...
in the
Abruzzi. At the age of fifteen he published a poem on the silkworm, ''Bombace e Seta'' (Rome, 1624). Two years later, emulous of the reputation
Marino had just gained with his ''Adone'', the young Argoli is said to have shut himself in an apartment, where he was visited only by servants bringing his food, and in seven months, at the age of seventeen, produced his ''Endimione'' (Rome, 1626). It met with a success apparently at least equal to the author's hopes. In 1632 he followed his father to
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
(where the latter was professor of
mathematics), taking the
doctorate
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in
law
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. Yet he returned to literature, which he taught with success at
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
until about 1640. Thereafter he again turned to the law, and held office in the government of
Cervia and
Lugo. In addition to his Italian verse, Argoli produced a number of poems in Latin, and several works on
archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landsca ...
and
philology
Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...
. Among these last are notes on the ''De Ludis Circensibus'' of
Onofrio Panvinio
The erudite Augustinian Onofrio Panvinio or Onuphrius Panvinius (23 February 1529 – 27 April 1568) was an Italian historian and antiquary, who was librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.
Life and work
Panvinio was born in Verona. At t ...
(Padua 1642). Giovanni Argoli was a member of the
Umoristi, Gelati, and
Incogniti
The Incogniti cricket club was founded in 1861. It claims to be the third oldest "wandering" cricket club – a nomadic cricket club without its own home ground – after I Zingari and Free Foresters (founded in 1845 and 1856 respectively). H ...
academies.
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Johann Georg Graevius
Johann Georg Graevius (originally Grava or Greffe; 29 January 1632 – 11 January 1703) was a German classical scholar and critic. He was born in Naumburg, in the Electorate of Saxony.
Life
Graevius was originally intended for the law, but made t ...
(ed.), ''Thesaurus antiquitatum romanarum'', IX, Leida,
Petrus van der Aa, 1699.
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Epistola ad Jacobum Philippum Tomasinum de templo Dianae Nemorensis', in:
Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, ''De donariis ac tabellis votivis liber singularis'', Padova, 1654 in-4 pag. 13 ff.; reprinted in:
Bibliography
* «Giovanni Argoli figlio d'Andrea». In : ''Le glorie de gli Incogniti: o vero, Gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de' signori Incogniti di Venetia'', In Venetia : appresso Francesco Valuasense stampator dell'Accademia, 1647, pp. 192–195
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* On his relations with
Leone da Modena see Roth, Cecil, “Leone da Modena and the Christian Hebraist of his Age,” ''Jewish Studies in Memory of Israel Abrahams'' (New York 1927), pp. 397 ff.
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Italian archaeologists
Italian antiquarians
Italian poets
1609 births
Baroque writers
University of Padua alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bologna