Staggia Senese
Staggia Senese is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Poggibonsi, province of Siena. At the time of the 2001 census its population was 2,129.apothecary as a youth; and owned the then famous Farmacia del Moro near the Cathedral. In 1540 he was among the founders of the Accademia degli Umidi, which was soon renamed
Accademia Fiorentina
The Accademia Fiorentina was a philosophical and literary academy in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance.
History
The Accademia Fiorentina was founded in Florence on 1 November 1540 as the Accademia degli Umidi, or "academy of the wet ones ...
. He later took a leading role in the establishment of the more famous
Accademia della Crusca
The Accademia della Crusca (; "Academy of the Bran"), generally abbreviated as La Crusca, is a Florence-based society of scholars of Italian linguistics and philology. It is one of the most important research institutions of the Italian language ...
, which published his ''Vocabulario'' of words accepted as the purest Italian. To both societies he was known as Il Lasca or Leuciscus, a pseudonym which is still frequently substituted for his proper name.
Grazzini was temperamental, his life consequently enlivened or disturbed by various literary quarrels. His Umidi brethren expelled him for a time, because of his ruthless criticism of the Arameans, a party of academicians who maintained that the
Florentine language
The Florentine dialect or vernacular ( or ) is a variety of Tuscan, a Romance language spoken in the Italian city of Florence and its immediate surroundings.
A received pedagogical variant derived from it historically, once called (literally, ...
was derived from Hebrew, Aramaic, or some other branch of the Semitic. He was readmitted in 1566, when his friend Salviati was consul.
II Lasca ranks as one of the great masters of Tuscan prose. His style is flexible and abundantly idiomatic, but without affectation. It has the force and freshness of popular speech, whilst retaining a flavour of academic culture.
Main works
*''Le Cene'' (1549), a collection of stories in the manner of Boccaccio, and a number of prose comedies. One of the stories is ''The Story of Doctor Manente'', translated and with an introduction by
D.H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...
(G. Orioli, 1929).
*''La Spiritata'' (1561)
*''I Parentadi''
*''La Arenga''
*''La Sibilla''
*''La Pinzochera''
*''L'Arzigogolo''
A number of miscellaneous poems, a few letters and ''Four Orations to the Cross'' complete the list of Grazzini's works.
He also edited the works of Francesco Berni, and collected ''Tutti I trionfi, larri, mascherate o canti carnascialeschi, andati per Firenze dal tempo del Magnifico Lorenzo vecchio de 'Medici fino all'anno 1559'' (the latter influenced Goethe's " Faust"). In 1868
Adamo Rossi
Adamo Rossi (March 5, 1821 in Petrignano – February 22, 1891 in Perugia) was an Italian clergyman, revolutionary patriot, scholar and librarian.
Career
After studying at the archdiocesan seminary of Perugia, Rossi took part in the First Italian ...
published in his ''Ricerche per le biblioteche di Perugia'' three novelle by Grazzini, from a manuscript of the 16th century in the Comunale of Perugia; and in 1870 a small collection of those poems which have been left unpublished by previous editors appeared at Poggibonsi, ''Alcune poesie inedite''.