Vincenzo Leonio

Vincenzo Leoni (9 February 1650 – 26 June 1720) was an Italian lawyer and poet, and in 1690 was one of the original founders of the Academy of Arcadia.

He was born to an aristocratic family in Spoleto; he then studied law in Macerata After practicing law in Rome for a few years, he became a writer and founder in the Accademia degli Arcadi (Academy of the Arcadians), aiming to extirpate the ruling taste and oddities introduced into the poetic language.[1] For the academy, he took the name of Uranius Tegeaeus.[2] Some of his elegies were included in Arcadum Carmina, Rome, 1757. Some of his works were published in the second volume of Vite degli Arcadi illustri.[3]

References
  1. Estirpare il cattivo gusto e le bizzarrie che si erano introdotti nella lingua poetica
  2. Le vite degli Arcadi illustri scritte da diversi autori, Volume 4, by Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, Publisher Antonio di Rossi, Rome (1727); pages 26-35.
  3. Biografia universale antica e moderna ossia Storia per alfabeto, Volume 32, Compiled by a French Society of the Learned; Specific entry by Peries; Republished in Italian by Presso Giovanni Battista Missiaglia, Venice (1826); page 161.
  • Vagnoni, Debora (2005). "LEONIO, Vincenzo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 64: Latilla–Levi Montalcini (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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