Giovanni Meli ( Italian: Giovanni Meli ; March 4, 1740 - December 20, 1815 ) - Sicilian and Italian poet and playwright .
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Biography
He studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Palermo. After graduation, he worked as a doctor in Cinisi in the province of Palermo . It was in this early period of his life that he became acquainted with the bucolic poetry of the poets of his native Sicily, the techniques of which he subsequently used in all his literary works.
Already being a well-known scientist and poet, he returned to Palermo. He worked as a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Palermo. He was an honorary member of a number of Italian academies ( Siena (1801) and Messina ).
He devoted the rest of his life to collecting works of Sicilian poetry, continuing to write and publish his own works. His Poesi Siciliani in five volumes was published in 1787, and a six-volume edition in 1814.
Creativity
Giovanni Meli is considered an outstanding Sicilian poet of his time along with Domenico Tempio .
He wrote his works in Sicilian .
The best of his lyric poems are distinguished by ancient Greek plasticity and cheerfulness and resemble Anacreon and Theocritus . Less successful epic poems by J. Meli: "La fata galante" , "L'origine del monde" and the heroic-comic "Don Chisciotte" - a revision and continuation of the novel by Cervantes .
J. Meli also wrote satires , and witty fables . Following the model of F. Redi ’s poem “Bacchus in Tuscany” ( Italian: Bacco in Toscana ; 1685 ), he wrote “Ditrammu” - a joke full of humor .
His scientific works were published under the title Varii opuscoli ( Palermo , 1837 ). In 1787, there he himself published a collection of poems.
After his death, a complete collection of poems (1830) and collections of "Poesie siciliane" (l859) and "Puisii siciliani" (1884) were published .
His works in the Sicilian dialect were translated into the literary Italian language by Gazzino (Turin, 1858); in German there is an excellent translation of Gregorovius of some of his songs (Leipzig 1856 and 1886).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Enciclopedia Treccani - 1929.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118783076 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF ID : 2011 open data platform .
Literature
- Meli, Giovanni // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- Biography (Italian) .