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Saverio Bettinelli

January 01, 1970

Saverio Bettinelli (18 July 1718 – 13 September 1808) was an Italian Jesuit writer. He became known as a polymath, dramatist, polemicist, poet, and literary critic. He was a friend of some of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Francesco Algarotti, Vincenzo Monti and Ippolito Pindemonte. Théodore Tronchin, Guillaume du Tillot, Melchiorre Cesarotti, Giacomo Filippo Durazzo, Pietro Verri, Giammaria Mazzucchelli and Francesco Maria Zanotti were among his correspondents.

The Reverend
Saverio Bettinelli
Portrait of Saverio Bettinelli by Domenico Conti Bazzani, 1800
Born(1718-07-18)July 18, 1718
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
Died13 September 1808(1808-09-13) (aged 90)
Mantua, Kingdom of Italy
NationalityItalian
Other namesM. Versajo Melasio
Diodoro Delfico
Occupations
  • Jesuit priest
  • Dramatist
  • Polemicist
  • Poet
  • Literary critic
Parent(s)Girolamo Bettinelli and Paola Bettinelli (née Frugoni)
Academic background
Influences
Academic work
Era
DisciplineLiterary criticism, italian studies, Medieval studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Modena
Influenced

Life edit

He was born at Mantua; there and later in Bologna, he studied under the Jesuits, till entering in novitiate in 1736, then formally consecrated as a priest in 1738.

He first taught literature from 1739 to 1744 at Brescia, where Cardinal Quirini, Count Federico Mazzuchelli, Count Duranti and other scholars, formed an illustrious academy. He next went to Bologna, to study divinity. There he was in contact with the circle including the poet Marini, Algarotti, and Zanotti. At the age of thirty he went to Venice, where he became professor of rhetoric. The superintendence of the college of nobles at Parma was entrusted to him in 1751; and he had principal charge of the studies of poetry and history, and the entertainments of the theatre. He remained there eight years, visiting, at intervals, other cities of Italy, often on the affairs of his order.

In 1755-1758 he undertook a series of journeys. First travelling to Germany in 1755, proceeded as far as Strasbourg and Nancy. He returned to Italy as a tutor to the sons of the Prince of Hohenlohe. The year following, he journeyed again to France, along with the eldest of his pupils; and during this excursion he wrote his famous Lettere dieci di Virgilio agli Arcadi, which were published at Venice. Bettinelli was also a poet of arcadic verse, collected in his Versi sciolti of 1758 and inspired by Frugoni and Algarotti, and of some tragedies including Gionata (1774), Demetrio Poliorcete (1758), Serse (1764) that were put on for the jesuit theater. In 1758 he went to Lorraine, to the court of King Stanislaus, who sent him on a matter of business to visit Voltaire. He would also meet in France with Rousseau.[1]

From Geneva he returned to Parma, where he arrived in 1759. He afterwards lived for some years at Verona and Modena, and he had just been appointed professor of rhetoric there, when, in 1773, the suppression of the Jesuit Order occurred in Italy, he had to abandon his teaching post at Modena,[2] Bettinelli returned home, and resumed his literary labours with new ardor. The siege of Mantua by the French compelled him to leave the city, and he retired to Verona, where he formed an intimate friendship with the chevalier Ippolito Pindemonte.

His major works are the literary criticisms and observations of culture. In 1757, he penned a series of letters addressed to Virgil in which he criticized the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, and affirmed that Among the erudite books, only certain parts from the Divine Comedy should be included, and these would form no more than five cantos [3] Voltaire was to praise his idiosyncratic opinions.

In 1766 he wrote Lettere inglesi where he proposes good taste in modern literature. In the enthusiasm of fine arts or Dell'entusiasmo delle belle arti, from 1769, where he exalts enthusiasm as a source of inspiration for fantasy in art according to a tendency that was pre-romantic.[1]

Among his main works is a sketch of the progress of literature, science, fine arts, industry, and customs in Italy, originally titled Risorgimento negli studi, nelle, Arti e ne' Costumi dopo di Mille.[4]

In 1797 he returned to Mantua. Though nearly eighty years old, he resumed his labors and his customary manner of life. He undertook in 1799 a complete edition of his works, which was published at Venice in 24 vols. At this death at the age of 90 years, he still retained his gaiety and vivacity of mind.[5][6]

Works edit

 
Serse re di Persia, 1800
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1758). Dieci Lettere di Publio Virgilio Marone scritte dagli Elisi all'Arcadia di Roma sopra gli abusi introdotti nella poesia italiana [Ten Letters by Publio Virgilio Marone Written from the Elysian Fields to the Roman Arcadia Concerning the Malpractices Introduced into Italian Poetry]. Venice: Fenzo.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1766). Dodici Lettere Inglesi sopra varii argomenti e sopra la letteratura italiana [Twelve Letters by an Englishman on Various Matters and Particularly on Italian Literature]. Venice: Pasquali.
  • Tragedie di Saverio Bettinelli della Compagnia di Gesù con la traduzione della Roma salvata di Mr de Voltaire e una cantata per la venuta dell'Imperador a Roma dedicate all'Altezza Reale della Serenissima Principessa Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este Arciduchessa d'Austria. Bassano: Remondini. 1771.
  • Delle lettere e delle arti mantovane. Mantua: Pannozzi. 1774.
  • Del Risorgimento d'Italia negli studj, nelle arti, e ne' costumi dopo il mille dell'abate Saverio Bettinelli. Venice: Remondini. 1786.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1799). Ragionamenti. Venice: Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1799). Dell'entusiasmo delle belle arti. 1. 1. Venice: presso Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1799). Dell'entusiasmo delle belle arti. 2-3. 2. Venice: presso Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1799). Dialoghi d'amore. 1. 1. Venice: presso Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1799). Dialoghi d'amore. 2. 2. Venice: presso Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1800). Accademiche dissertazioni su la poesia scritturale. Venice: Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1800). Delle lettere e delle arti mantovane. Venice: Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1800). Serse re di Persia. Venice: Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1800). Discorso sopra la poesia italiana. Venice: presso Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1800). Lettere 20 di una dama ad una sua amica su le belle arti. Venice: presso Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1800). Lettere di Virgilio e inglesi. Venice: presso Adolfo Cesare.
  • Opere edite ed inedite in prosa ed in versi. Seconda edizione riveduta, ampliata, e corretta dall'Autore, 24 vols., revised and enlarged edition, Venice: Cesare, 1799-1801.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1801). Sull'eloquenza. Venice: Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1801). Lettere a Lesbia Cidonia sopra gli epigrammi. 1-21. 1. Venice: presso Adolfo Cesare.
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1801). Lettere a Lesbia Cidonia sopra gli epigrammi. 22-25. 2. Venice: presso Adolfo Cesare.
  • F. Algarotti; S. Bettinelli (1969). Ettore Bonora (ed.). Opere. Milan-Naples: Ricciardi.

Bibliography edit

  • Bonfatti, Alfredo (1952). "Il petrarchismo critico di Saverio Bettinelli". Lettere Italiane. 4 (3): 151–180. ISSN 0024-1334. JSTOR 26243867.
  • Finoli, Anna Maria (1968). "Inediti francesi del Bettinelli". Lettere Italiane. 20 (3): 391–402. JSTOR 26248935.
  • Fubini, Mario (1970). "Bettinelli, Saverio". In Umberto Bosco (ed.). Enciclopedia Dantesca. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  • Bonora, Ettore (1983). "Il pensiero critico del Bettinelli; Le tragedie e la poetica del tragico di Saverio Bettinelli; L'"entusiasmo delle belle arti" e Pietro Verri". Parini e altro settecento. Milan: Feltrinelli.
  • Bonora, Ettore (1998). Bettinelli e Virgilio, dall'Arcadia al Leopardi. Modena: Mucchi.
  • Ilaria Crotti; Ricciarda Ricorda, eds. (1998). Saverio Bettinelli. Un gesuita alla scuola del mondo. Roma: Bulzoni. ISBN 88-8319-226-5.
  • Ricorda, Ricciarda. Il «Parnaso veneziano»: Bettinelli e la cultura veneziana. pp. 247 ff.
  • Crotti, I. (2002). "Bettinelli, Saverio". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 7 June 2023.

References edit

 
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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Muscetta 1967.
  2. ^ G. F. Galeani Napione (1809), Vita dell'abate Saverio Bettinelli , Page 91, Turin, Italy: Presso i Fratelli Pomba
  3. ^ "Sia posto tra i libri di erudizione, e della Commedia si lascino solo taluni pezzi che, raccolti e, come meglio si può, ordinati, formino non più di cinque canti." Saverio Bettinelli - Lettere di Virgilio agli Arcadi di Rome — Lettera IX.
  4. ^ Saverio Bettinelli (1786), Del Risorgimento d'Italia negli studi, nelle arti, e ne' costumi dopo il Mille, Spese Remondini of Venice: Bassano, Italy
  5. ^ Chisholm 1911.
  6. ^ Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 1, compiled by Gioacchino Maria Olivier-Poli, Naples (1824); pages 287-291.
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This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations February 2012 Learn how and when to remove this message Saverio Bettinelli 18 July 1718 13 September 1808 was an Italian Jesuit writer He became known as a polymath dramatist polemicist poet and literary critic He was a friend of some of the leading authors of his times Voltaire Francesco Algarotti Vincenzo Monti and Ippolito Pindemonte Theodore Tronchin Guillaume du Tillot Melchiorre Cesarotti Giacomo Filippo Durazzo Pietro Verri Giammaria Mazzucchelli and Francesco Maria Zanotti were among his correspondents The ReverendSaverio BettinelliPortrait of Saverio Bettinelli by Domenico Conti Bazzani 1800Born 1718 07 18 July 18 1718Mantua Duchy of MantuaDied13 September 1808 1808 09 13 aged 90 Mantua Kingdom of ItalyNationalityItalianOther namesM Versajo MelasioDiodoro DelficoOccupationsJesuit priestDramatistPolemicistPoetLiterary criticParent s Girolamo Bettinelli and Paola Bettinelli nee Frugoni Academic backgroundInfluencesJean Racine 1 Pierre Corneille 1 Voltaire 1 Academic workEraAge of EnlightenmentPreromanticismDisciplineLiterary criticism italian studies Medieval studiesInstitutionsUniversity of ModenaInfluencedVittorio Alfieri 1 Vincenzo Monti 1 Alessandro Verri 1 Vincenzo Gioberti 1 Friedrich Schlegel 1 Niccolo Tommaseo 1 Cesare Cantu 1 Contents 1 Life 2 Works 3 Bibliography 4 ReferencesLife editHe was born at Mantua there and later in Bologna he studied under the Jesuits till entering in novitiate in 1736 then formally consecrated as a priest in 1738 He first taught literature from 1739 to 1744 at Brescia where Cardinal Quirini Count Federico Mazzuchelli Count Duranti and other scholars formed an illustrious academy He next went to Bologna to study divinity There he was in contact with the circle including the poet Marini Algarotti and Zanotti At the age of thirty he went to Venice where he became professor of rhetoric The superintendence of the college of nobles at Parma was entrusted to him in 1751 and he had principal charge of the studies of poetry and history and the entertainments of the theatre He remained there eight years visiting at intervals other cities of Italy often on the affairs of his order In 1755 1758 he undertook a series of journeys First travelling to Germany in 1755 proceeded as far as Strasbourg and Nancy He returned to Italy as a tutor to the sons of the Prince of Hohenlohe The year following he journeyed again to France along with the eldest of his pupils and during this excursion he wrote his famous Lettere dieci di Virgilio agli Arcadi which were published at Venice Bettinelli was also a poet of arcadic verse collected in his Versi sciolti of 1758 and inspired by Frugoni and Algarotti and of some tragedies including Gionata 1774 Demetrio Poliorcete 1758 Serse 1764 that were put on for the jesuit theater In 1758 he went to Lorraine to the court of King Stanislaus who sent him on a matter of business to visit Voltaire He would also meet in France with Rousseau 1 From Geneva he returned to Parma where he arrived in 1759 He afterwards lived for some years at Verona and Modena and he had just been appointed professor of rhetoric there when in 1773 the suppression of the Jesuit Order occurred in Italy he had to abandon his teaching post at Modena 2 Bettinelli returned home and resumed his literary labours with new ardor The siege of Mantua by the French compelled him to leave the city and he retired to Verona where he formed an intimate friendship with the chevalier Ippolito Pindemonte His major works are the literary criticisms and observations of culture In 1757 he penned a series of letters addressed to Virgil in which he criticized the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and affirmed that Among the erudite books only certain parts from the Divine Comedy should be included and these would form no more than five cantos 3 Voltaire was to praise his idiosyncratic opinions In 1766 he wrote Lettere inglesi where he proposes good taste in modern literature In the enthusiasm of fine arts or Dell entusiasmo delle belle arti from 1769 where he exalts enthusiasm as a source of inspiration for fantasy in art according to a tendency that was pre romantic 1 Among his main works is a sketch of the progress of literature science fine arts industry and customs in Italy originally titled Risorgimento negli studi nelle Arti e ne Costumi dopo di Mille 4 In 1797 he returned to Mantua Though nearly eighty years old he resumed his labors and his customary manner of life He undertook in 1799 a complete edition of his works which was published at Venice in 24 vols At this death at the age of 90 years he still retained his gaiety and vivacity of mind 5 6 Works edit nbsp Serse re di Persia 1800 Saverio Bettinelli 1758 Dieci Lettere di Publio Virgilio Marone scritte dagli Elisi all Arcadia di Roma sopra gli abusi introdotti nella poesia italiana Ten Letters by Publio Virgilio Marone Written from the Elysian Fields to the Roman Arcadia Concerning the Malpractices Introduced into Italian Poetry Venice Fenzo Saverio Bettinelli 1766 Dodici Lettere Inglesi sopra varii argomenti e sopra la letteratura italiana Twelve Letters by an Englishman on Various Matters and Particularly on Italian Literature Venice Pasquali Tragedie di Saverio Bettinelli della Compagnia di Gesu con la traduzione della Roma salvata di Mr de Voltaire e una cantata per la venuta dell Imperador a Roma dedicate all Altezza Reale della Serenissima Principessa Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d Este Arciduchessa d Austria Bassano Remondini 1771 Delle lettere e delle arti mantovane Mantua Pannozzi 1774 Del Risorgimento d Italia negli studj nelle arti e ne costumi dopo il mille dell abate Saverio Bettinelli Venice Remondini 1786 Saverio Bettinelli 1799 Ragionamenti Venice Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1799 Dell entusiasmo delle belle arti 1 1 Venice presso Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1799 Dell entusiasmo delle belle arti 2 3 2 Venice presso Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1799 Dialoghi d amore 1 1 Venice presso Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1799 Dialoghi d amore 2 2 Venice presso Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1800 Accademiche dissertazioni su la poesia scritturale Venice Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1800 Delle lettere e delle arti mantovane Venice Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1800 Serse re di Persia Venice Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1800 Discorso sopra la poesia italiana Venice presso Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1800 Lettere 20 di una dama ad una sua amica su le belle arti Venice presso Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1800 Lettere di Virgilio e inglesi Venice presso Adolfo Cesare Opere edite ed inedite in prosa ed in versi Seconda edizione riveduta ampliata e corretta dall Autore 24 vols revised and enlarged edition Venice Cesare 1799 1801 Saverio Bettinelli 1801 Sull eloquenza Venice Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1801 Lettere a Lesbia Cidonia sopra gli epigrammi 1 21 1 Venice presso Adolfo Cesare Saverio Bettinelli 1801 Lettere a Lesbia Cidonia sopra gli epigrammi 22 25 2 Venice presso Adolfo Cesare F Algarotti S Bettinelli 1969 Ettore Bonora ed Opere Milan Naples Ricciardi Bibliography editBonfatti Alfredo 1952 Il petrarchismo critico di Saverio Bettinelli Lettere Italiane 4 3 151 180 ISSN 0024 1334 JSTOR 26243867 Finoli Anna Maria 1968 Inediti francesi del Bettinelli Lettere Italiane 20 3 391 402 JSTOR 26248935 Fubini Mario 1970 Bettinelli Saverio In Umberto Bosco ed Enciclopedia Dantesca Rome Istituto dell Enciclopedia Italiana Retrieved 14 August 2018 Bonora Ettore 1983 Il pensiero critico del Bettinelli Le tragedie e la poetica del tragico di Saverio Bettinelli L entusiasmo delle belle arti e Pietro Verri Parini e altro settecento Milan Feltrinelli Bonora Ettore 1998 Bettinelli e Virgilio dall Arcadia al Leopardi Modena Mucchi Ilaria Crotti Ricciarda Ricorda eds 1998 Saverio Bettinelli Un gesuita alla scuola del mondo Roma Bulzoni ISBN 88 8319 226 5 Ricorda Ricciarda Il Parnaso veneziano Bettinelli e la cultura veneziana pp 247 ff Crotti I 2002 Bettinelli Saverio The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature Oxford University Press Retrieved 7 June 2023 References edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saverio Bettinelli a b c d e f g h i j k l Muscetta 1967 G F Galeani Napione 1809 Vita dell abate Saverio Bettinelli Page 91 Turin Italy Presso i Fratelli Pomba Sia posto tra i libri di erudizione e della Commedia si lascino solo taluni pezzi che raccolti e come meglio si puo ordinati formino non piu di cinque canti Saverio Bettinelli Lettere di Virgilio agli Arcadi di Rome Lettera IX Saverio Bettinelli 1786 Del Risorgimento d Italia negli studi nelle arti e ne costumi dopo il Mille Spese Remondini of Venice Bassano Italy Chisholm 1911 Dizionario biografico universale Volume 1 compiled by Gioacchino Maria Olivier Poli Naples 1824 pages 287 291 Attribution nbsp This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Bettinelli Saverio Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 3 11th ed Cambridge University Press Muscetta Carlo 1967 Bettinelli Saverio Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 9 Berengario Biagini in Italian Rome Istituto dell Enciclopedia Italiana ISBN 978 8 81200032 6 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Saverio Bettinelli amp oldid 1200978957, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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