Trajano Boccalini (b. 1556 in Loreto, d. Loreto is a hilltown and Comune of the Italian Province of Ancona, in the Marche. November 16, 1613 in Venice) was an Italian satirist. Events 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest
The son of an architect, he himself adopted that profession, and it appears that he commenced late in life to apply to literary pursuits. An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction Pursuing his studies at Rome, he had the honor of teaching Bentivoglio, and acquired the friendship of the cardinals Gaetano and Borghesi, as well as of other distinguished personages. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Bentivoglio (in Latin, rendered as Bentivoius) was an Italian family of princely rank long supreme in Bologna and responsible for giving the By their influence he obtained various posts, and was even appointed (by Gregory XIII) governor of Benevento in the states of the church. Pope Gregory XIII (January 7 1502 &ndash April 10 1585 born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope from 1572 to 1585 Benevento is a town and Comune of Campania, Italy, capital of the Province of Benevento, 50 km northeast of Naples. The Papal States, State(s of the Church or Pontifical States (in Italian Stato Ecclesiastico, Stato della Chiesa, Stati della Chiesa Here, however, he seems to have acted imprudently, and he was soon recalled to Rome, where he shortly afterwards composed his most important work, the Ragguagli di Parnaso (News-sheet from Parnassus), in which Apollo is represented as receiving the complaints of all who present themselves, and distributing justice according to the merits of each particular case. The book is full of light and fantastic satire on the actions and writings of his eminent contemporaries, and some of its happier hits are among the hackneyed felicities of literature. Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human
To escape, it is said, from the hostility of those whom his shafts had wounded, he returned to Venice, and there, according to the register in the parochial church of Santa Maria Formosa, died of colic accompanied with fever on November 16, 1613. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Santa Maria Formosa is a church in Venice, Northern Italy. It was erected in 1492 under the design by Renaissance architect Mauro Codussi "Cholic" redirects here For cholic acid see Cholic acid. Fever (also known as pyrexia, from the Greek pyretos meaning fire or a febrile response, from the Latin word Febris Events 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published It was asserted by contemporary writers that he had been beaten to death with sand-bags by a band of Spanish bravadoes, but the story seems without foundation. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. At the same time, it is evident from the Pietra del Paragone, which appeared in 1615 after his death, that whatever the feelings of the Spaniards towards him, he cherished against them feelings of the bitterest hostility. The only government which was exempt from his attacks is that of Venice, a city for which he seems to have had a special affection.
The Ragguagli, first printed in 1612, has frequently been republished. The Pietra has been translated into French, German, English and Latin; the English translator was Henry, Earl of Monmouth, his version being entitled The Politicke Touchstone (London, 1674). Henry Earl of Monmouth may refer to the following Henry Carey 2nd Earl of Monmouth ( 1596 - 1661) Henry Mordaunt 1st Earl Another posthumous publication of Boccalini was his Commentarii sopra Cornelio Tacito (Geneva, 1669). Many of his manuscripts are preserved still unprinted.
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- Works by or about Trajano Boccalini in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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