Antonio Abati

Antonio Abati (* 1600 in Gubbio, † October 1667, Senigallia ) was an Italian poet.

Life

Little is known about the early life Abatis, who earned his lifetime a reputation as a respected poet. 1631 he lived in Rome and stayed from 1634 to 1638 in Viterbo, where he met the Italian painter and poet Salvator Rosa. 1638 he moved to Milan. From 1640, he spent four years in Vienna as Poet Laureate of the Austrian Archduke Leopold. Then he traveled Flanders and France and described his gained from this, often negative experiences in satire Il viaggio. After his return to his native country he received the patronage of Cardinal Fabio Chigi - the future Pope Alexander VII - which him governor of several small, the Papal States associated cities - appointed - among others grotto, Recanati and Frascati. Emperor Ferdinand III. let his honor in Italian Write an acrostic, while the plug end often in need of money poet would have much rather used a pension. Last lived Abati retired to an estate in Senigallia, which had given him the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere given. There he ended his life after a long illness in 1667.

Works

On the occasion of the agreement between France and Spain Pyrenees peace and the marriage of Louis XIV to the Spanish Infanta Maria Theresa Abati wrote the work Il Consiglio degli Dei, dramma per musica ..., which he dedicated to Cardinal Mazarin in 1660 and which was published in 1671 in Bologna.

Other works:

  • Ragguagli di Parnaso contra i poetastri e delle parti giani nationi (Rome 1631 and Milan 1638)
  • Le Frascheri fasci tre (Venice 1651), satirical poetry in prose and verse
  • Poetry posthumous (Bologna 1671 and Venice in 1673 )
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