Federigo Nomi
Federigo Nomi (31 January 1633 – 30 November 1705) was an Italian poet and translator.
Federigo Nomi | |
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 Portrait of Federigo Nomi. Anghiari, Museo di Palazzo Taglieschi | |
| Born | 31 January 1633 |
| Died | 30 November 1705 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | University of Pisa |
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| Known for | Italian translation of Horace |
| Parent(s) | Giovanni Battista Nomi and Ottavia Nomi (née Canicchi) |
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| Language | Latin, Italian |
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Biography
Born in Anghiari in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Nomi lived most of his life in Arezzo. In 1656, he took holy orders.[1] From 1674 to 1682, he taught feudal law at the University of Pisa.[2] Later in his life he became a parish priest in the small town of Monterchi.[1] He died in Monterchi on 30 November 1705, aged 72.[3] A close friend of Francesco Redi and Antonio Magliabechi, Nomi was a member of the Academy of Arcadia, using the pseudonym ‘Cerifone Nedeatide’.[4]
Works
His major works were the epic poem Buda liberata (1703), modelled on Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, and the mock-heroic poem Il catorcio d'Anghiari, written about 1684 in imitation of Alessandro Tassoni's La secchia rapita and published posthumously in 1830.[1] Other works include neoclassic lyrics, religious poetry, Italian translations of Horace's Odes and Epodes, and a collection of Latin satires written in imitation of Juvenal and published in Leiden by Jakob Gronovius (1703).[1] Nomi translated Francesco Redi's Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali into Latin.[1]
List of works
- Poesie Liriche. Perugia: Zecchini. 1666.
- I quattro libri delle poesie liriche di Orazio Flacco. Florence: all'insegna della Nave. 1672.
- Il libro degli Epodi di Orazio trasportato in Toscana favella. Florence: per Niccolò Navesi, al segno della Nave. 1675.
- Jakob Gronovius, ed. (1703). Liber satyrarum sexdecim (in Latin). Lugduni in Batavis: apud Jordanum Luchtmans.
Notes
- Grassi 2013.
- Federigo Nomi entry (in Italian) by Luigi Fassò in the Enciclopedia italiana, 1934
- Crescimbeni 1720, p. 264.
- Carini, Isidoro (1891). L'Arcadia. Rome: tipografia della Pace di Filippo Cuggiani. pp. 435-436.
Bibliography
- Grassi, Liliana (2013). "NOMI, Federigo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 78: Natta–Nurra (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Crescimbeni, Giovanni Mario (1720). Notizie Istoriche degli Arcadi Morti. Vol. 2. Rome: de Rossi. pp. 262–264.
- Bettazzi, Enrico (1912). "Appunti biografici e bibliografici intorno a Federigo Nomi". Scritti Varii in Onore di Rodolfo Renier. Turin: 697–702.
- Citroni, S. (1976). "Le satire latine di Federico Nomi e di Ludovico Sergardi: aspetti dell'eredità di Giovenale alla fine del '600". Studi Secenteschi. 17 (33): 33–60.