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Federigo Nomi

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Federigo Nomi
Portrait of Federigo Nomi. Anghiari, Museo di Palazzo Taglieschi
Born(1633-01-31)31 January 1633
Died30 November 1705(1705-11-30) (aged 72)
Alma materUniversity of Pisa
Occupations
  • Poet
  • Classical scholar
  • Translator
Known forItalian translation of Horace
Parent(s)Giovanni Battista Nomi and Ottavia Nomi (née Canicchi)
Writing career
LanguageLatin, Italian
Genre
Literary movement

Federigo Nomi (31 January 1633 – 30 November 1705) was an Italian poet and translator.

Biography

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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

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c d e Grassi 2013.
  2. ^ Federigo Nomi entry (in Italian) by Luigi Fassò in the Enciclopedia Treccani, 1934
  3. ^ Crescimbeni 1720, p. 264.
  4. ^ Carini, Isidoro (1891). L'Arcadia. Rome: tipografia della Pace di Filippo Cuggiani. pp. 435-436.

Bibliography

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