Carlo Pepoli

Count ( Conte) Carlo Pepoli ( born July 22, 1796 in Bologna, † December 7, 1881 ) was an Italian poet and librettist, as well as a Democrat and politicians in the context of the Risorgimento.

Life and political activity

The Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini was a follower and participated in the revolutionary uprisings of the Italian Risorgimento, the broken 1830/31 in central Italy and just as quickly - mainly by Austrian troops - had been defeated. During the February Revolution of 1831 in Romagna, in which the nation-state unit, a constitution and a parliament was called, he was sent as prefect to Pesaro and Urbino, but then had to flee to Ancona where he was captured and taken to Venice. As Mazzini he first went into exile in Marseille, but then to Paris, where he associated with the most important intellectuals and cooperated as a journalist at Italian-speaking exile journals. For a short time he served in a battalion of the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, the officer of the Italian patriots and Raffaele Poerio (1792-1853) was commanded. He then went to London, where he held the chair of Italian literature and the writer Elisabetta Ferus (presumably Elizabeth Ferus ) married.

1848 Pepoli returned back to Italy, where he initially participated as a Commissioner for Civil and Military rights and deputy of the newly proclaimed Roman Republic at the national unification movement. In 1859 he was elected as a deputy of the regional finals and Mirandola in the Romagna and nominated in 1862 for lifetime senator of 1861 and 1946 established Senato del Regno resolution ( d' Italia ). In the same year he was elected mayor of Bologna (his term began on January 11, 1862) - a position he held until the end of 1866.

From 1860, he taught philosophy and literature at the University of Bologna, one of Europe's oldest universities, and was secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts ( Accademia di Belle Arti ). In 1863 he donated to the Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio, an important humanistic and civic history of the town library, a collection of maps and architectural designs from the Bolognese Urban Development, which is known as Cartella Giordani. This inventory, which was destroyed by the bombing and damage to the Allies in the battles of the declining German Empire to the end of the Second World War partly exists today on 163 objects. Pepoli left the Bolognese library also numerous books and other writings.

Literary work

During his short stay in Paris Pepoli wrote the libretto for Bellini's last opera I Puritani ( The Puritans ), which premiered on January 24, 1835 Paris Théâtre Italien. Bellini composed the music for some of his sonnets (La ricordanza, La speranza and Amore e Malinconia ) and the Sapphic Ode Alla luna. Gioachino Rossini also has some of the poems set to music Pepolis Carlo prominently in his song cycle Les soirées musicales with the title (1830-1835) - particularly the Neapolitan Tarantella La Danza ( Già la luna è in mezzo al mare ) is as vielgesungenes tenor song in interpretations of Enrico Caruso, Mario Lanza, Luciano Pavarotti and many others have become known worldwide.

Pepoli wrote numerous works in prose and poetry and translated the Gospel of Matthew in the Bolognese dialect.

He was a close friend of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, who dedicated his narrative poem Al Conte Carlo Pepoli ( Canto XIX. ). Both were members of the Bolognese Accademia dei Felsinei.

( Occasionally Carlo Pepoli is also a homonymous relatives - probably a cousin or nephew - confused, who had married in 1854, the singer Marietta Alboni and died in 1866. )