Vincenzo da Filicaia ( Italian. Vincenzo da Filicaja ; December 30, 1642 , Florence - September 24, 1707 , Florence ) - Italian poet , author of the patriotic canzon and sonnets , member of the Academy della Krusca and the Arcadian Academy ; one of the founders of Italian classicism .
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Biography and Creativity
Descended from a Florentine senatorial surname; studied at the University of Pisa , received a law degree. In his sonnets he sang first love ; when his beloved woman died, he began religious and patriotic plots. [four]
After the liberation of the Turks-besieged Vienna by Jan Sobieski (1683), he wrote several canzons devoted to glorifying the victory of the Christian world over the Muslim world. Living constantly in the village, he did not publish his works and showed them only to the elect. By chance, they caught the eye of the Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III , who was delighted with them and showed them to Sobieski and Queen Christina of Sweden . The latter took a great part in the poet and, in view of his poverty, took upon herself the care of raising his sons. Filicaia held administrative positions in Tuscany. Duke Cosimo elevated him to the rank of senator. Well secured, Filicaia began to publish his writings, completed after his death by his son. [four]
Of the poems of Filicaia, the 83th sonnet is the most famous, in which he mourns the calamities of Italy and regrets that Italy is too beautiful, which is why it is taken by predators, and too weak to be able to fight them and chase them away (here the famous verse: “Deh fossi tu men bella, o almen piu forte!”). Sonnet was translated by Byron in Childe Harold (Song IV). [four]
The poems of Filicaia are distinguished by their plasticity and musicality [4] .
Editions
- “Poesie e lettera di Vincenzo da Filicaja” (Florence, 1864).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Filicaia, Vincenzo // Encyclopedic dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Castellani, "Il seicento e V. da Filicaja" (1890).
Links
- Filicaia, Vincenzo // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Texts related to Sonnet Filicaia N 87 "All'Italia" on Wikitek, translated by Katenin , 1822
- Biography in the Literary Encyclopedia