Luigi Tansillo (1510–1568) was an
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
poet of the Petrarchian and Marinist schools. Born in
VenosaVenosa is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata, in the Vulture area. It is bounded by the comuni of Barile, Ginestra, Lavello, Maschito, Montemilone, Palazzo San Gervasio, Rapolla and Spinazzola.-Ancient:...
, he entered the service of
Pedro Álvarez de ToledoPedro Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 2nd Marquis Consort of Villafranca del Bierzo was the first effective Spanish viceroy of Naples, responsible for considerable social, economic and urban change in the city and southern Italian kingdom, in general.-Early life:He was born in 1484 near Salamanca in...
in 1536 and in 1540 entered the
Accademia degli Umidi ("Academy of the Humid"), afterwards called della Fiorentina.
He was associated with the
Court of NaplesThe Kingdom of Naples is the modern day name for a polity which existed on the southern part of the Italian peninsula. Also known contemporaneously, and somewhat confusingly, as the Kingdom of Sicily, this kingdom was founded after the secession of the island of Sicily from the old Kingdom of...
and served as Captain of Justice at
GaetaGaeta is a city and comune in the province of Latina, in Lazio, central Italy. Set on a promontory stretching towards the Gulf of Gaeta, it is 120 km from Rome and 80 km from Naples....
.
His work
Il vendemmiatore, written in his youth, was considered licentiious enough to be placed on the
Index Librorum ProhibitorumThe Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of publications prohibited by the Roman Catholic Church.It was abolished on 14 June 1966 by Pope Paul VI....
by
Pope Paul IVPope Paul IV , né Giovanni Pietro Carafa, was Pope from 23 May 1555 until his death.Giovanni Pietro Carafa was born in Capriglia Irpina, near Avellino, into a prominent noble family of Naples...
.
His work
Il podere, conconcered with
agronomyAgronomy is the science and technology of using plants for food, fuel, feed, and fiber. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. Agronomy is the application of a combination of sciences like biology, chemistry, ecology, earth...
, was inspired by
ColumellaLucius Iunius Moderatus Columella was a Roman writer. After a career in the army , he took up farming...
with its precise observations on the choice of a good agricultural estate.
He died at
TeanoTeano is a town of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, 30 km north-west of that town on the main line to Rome from Naples. It stands at the south-east foot of an extinct volcano, Rocca Monfina.- Ancient times and Middle Ages:...
.
Jacquet de BerchemJacquet de Berchem was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy. He was famous in mid-16th-century Italy for his madrigals, approximately 200 of which were printed in Venice, some in multiple printings due to their considerable popularity...
set some of his texts, as did
Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da PascarolaGiovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola, also Giovanni Benedetti da Pascarola was an Italian composer of the Renaissance....
.
Luigi Tansillo (1510–1568) was an
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
poet of the Petrarchian and Marinist schools. Born in
VenosaVenosa is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata, in the Vulture area. It is bounded by the comuni of Barile, Ginestra, Lavello, Maschito, Montemilone, Palazzo San Gervasio, Rapolla and Spinazzola.-Ancient:...
, he entered the service of
Pedro Álvarez de ToledoPedro Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 2nd Marquis Consort of Villafranca del Bierzo was the first effective Spanish viceroy of Naples, responsible for considerable social, economic and urban change in the city and southern Italian kingdom, in general.-Early life:He was born in 1484 near Salamanca in...
in 1536 and in 1540 entered the
Accademia degli Umidi ("Academy of the Humid"), afterwards called della Fiorentina.
He was associated with the
Court of NaplesThe Kingdom of Naples is the modern day name for a polity which existed on the southern part of the Italian peninsula. Also known contemporaneously, and somewhat confusingly, as the Kingdom of Sicily, this kingdom was founded after the secession of the island of Sicily from the old Kingdom of...
and served as Captain of Justice at
GaetaGaeta is a city and comune in the province of Latina, in Lazio, central Italy. Set on a promontory stretching towards the Gulf of Gaeta, it is 120 km from Rome and 80 km from Naples....
.
His work
Il vendemmiatore, written in his youth, was considered licentiious enough to be placed on the
Index Librorum ProhibitorumThe Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of publications prohibited by the Roman Catholic Church.It was abolished on 14 June 1966 by Pope Paul VI....
by
Pope Paul IVPope Paul IV , né Giovanni Pietro Carafa, was Pope from 23 May 1555 until his death.Giovanni Pietro Carafa was born in Capriglia Irpina, near Avellino, into a prominent noble family of Naples...
.
His work
Il podere, conconcered with
agronomyAgronomy is the science and technology of using plants for food, fuel, feed, and fiber. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. Agronomy is the application of a combination of sciences like biology, chemistry, ecology, earth...
, was inspired by
ColumellaLucius Iunius Moderatus Columella was a Roman writer. After a career in the army , he took up farming...
with its precise observations on the choice of a good agricultural estate.
He died at
TeanoTeano is a town of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, 30 km north-west of that town on the main line to Rome from Naples. It stands at the south-east foot of an extinct volcano, Rocca Monfina.- Ancient times and Middle Ages:...
.
Jacquet de BerchemJacquet de Berchem was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy. He was famous in mid-16th-century Italy for his madrigals, approximately 200 of which were printed in Venice, some in multiple printings due to their considerable popularity...
set some of his texts, as did
Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da PascarolaGiovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola, also Giovanni Benedetti da Pascarola was an Italian composer of the Renaissance....
.
François de Malherbe’sFrançois de Malherbe was a French poet, critic, and translator.-Life:Born in Le-Locheur , his family was of some position, though it seems not to have been able to establish to the satisfaction of heralds the claims which it made to nobility older than the 16th century.He was the eldest son of...
Larmes de Saint Pierre, imitated from Tansillo, appeared in 1587, and in 1594 Orlando di Lasso also set Le
lagrime di San PietroThe Lagrime di San Pietro is a cycle of 20 madrigals and a concluding motet by the late Renaissance composer Orlande de Lassus. It was his last composition, written in 1594, and published posthumously in Munich in 1595...
.
William Roscoe’sWilliam Roscoe , was an English historian and miscellaneous writer.He was born in Liverpool, where his father, a market gardener, kept a public house called the Bowling Green at Mount Pleasant. Roscoe left school at the age of twelve, having learned all that his schoolmaster could teach...
translation of Tansillo's
Nurse appeared in 1798, and went through several editions.
Works
- I due pellegrini (1530)
- Il vendemmiatore (1532–1534)
- Stanze a Bernardino Martirano (1540)
- Clorida (1547)
- La Balia (1552)
- Il podere (1560)
- Le lagrime di San Pietro (1585)
- Liriche
- Il canzoniere
Sources
- Francesco Ambrosoli, Manuale della Letteratura Italiana , seconda edizione ricorretta e accresciuta dall'autore (Vol.II, Firenze, G.Barbèra Editore), 1863.