Matteo Maria Boiardo

Matteo Maria Boiardo (* 1441 in Scandiano, † December 19, 1494 in Reggio Emilia ) was an Italian poet.

Count Matteo Maria Boiardo was born into a noble family in Scandiano, who was the "first Western Kabbalist " sensation caring Giovanni Pico della Mirandola be much younger cousin, Tito Vespasian Strozzi, another author of the widely acclaimed Musenhofs in Ferrara, his uncle. After thorough training in the ancient languages ​​, including also oriental, he served in Ferrara, Modena and Reggio at the Duke family of Este.

Work

His literary career began in 1461 with Latin verses about Boiardo, Lobgedichten on the Este and pastoral poems in imitation of Virgil Eclogen. He translated the novel Metamorphoses of Apuleius and other latin texts into Italian. His principal Italian works are Amorum libri tres and Orlando inammorato.

The Canzoniere ( libri tres Amorum ) contains three parts with sonnets and lyrical love seals in other forms. They deal with Boiardos love for Antonia Caprara, who he met in 1469 in Reggio at the court of Sigismondo d' Este. The title is borrowed from Ovid. The Orlando innamorato is Boiardos mature work, which he began in 1476. The substance of the work is related to the European knights seal of the Holy Grail, the main hero of Orlando corresponds to the German heroes Roland of the Charles Sage. 1483 Boiardo published the first two parts of the work (60 seals) in Reggio. He was prevented from performing work duties and political events and could not bring to a conclusion the work. With the work of Boiardo established his fame as the greatest Italian poet of the 15th century, was continued by his Orlando Furioso Ariosto's Orlando (also in Ferrara), who surpassed his predecessors and early put him through even greater recognition in the shade.

A smaller work, a poem about an unusual self -composed Tarot game of the 15th century, has importance for the umrätselten origin of these cards.