Francesco Berni
Francesco Berni ( Bernia ) (* 1497 or 1498 in Lamporecchio, Tuscany, † May 26, 1536 in Florence ) was an Italian poet, who grew up as the son of a noble but poor family.
After spent in great poverty of youth he entered his 20th year in Rome in the service of his distant relative, the Cardinal Bibbiena, after his death in the Angiolo his nephew and eventually became Secretary of the Datario Giberti, Bishop of Verona, in which he seven years remained. His penchant for independence and to pleasures, but especially his ruthless mockery, which did not spare even the highest ecclesiastical dignitaries, it prevented to gain a secure and comfortable existence, while his wit, his cheerful mood and his poetic talents, friends and acquired fame.
Berni was one of the most respected members of the 1527 donated Accademia de ' Vignajuoli to which were the most important poets then living in Rome. The loss of his possessions in the sack of Rome in 1527 disgusted him to stay there, and he went to Florence, where he lived from the income of a closed but Kanonikats him and enjoyed the protection of the Cardinal Ippolito de 'Medici and the Duke Alessandro. However, the connection with this was disastrous for Berni. For when the Duke exacted him to poison the Cardinal, and Berni refused his, he should have gotten from that poison itself, what he died in 1536.
Bernis principal work is his " Orlando innamorato " really just a revision of the poem by Matteo Maria Boiardo, in which he not on the substance itself or on the course of the narrative to change anything, just language, style and versification of the poem improved, and the same one jocular, often burlesque tone lent. Only the beautiful beginnings of the chants include Berni very own. Because of the purity, grace and elegance of language and versification, however, this Bernese "Orlando" is considered a classic, has the original poem brought up to modern times almost completely forgotten and is adjusted by the Italians only the " Orlando Furioso " of Ariosto.
Nächstdem Berni is particularly famous for its burlesque and satirical poems. The same are some sonnets, sometimes called Capitoli in terza rima and be appreciated for her wit and her mood as especially because of the pure, real Florentine language, but mostly crudely violate decency. The Italians consider Berni as the greatest master in this genre that they call him Poesia bernesca. These poems are similar with other of his contemporaries (Giovanni della Casa, Francesco Maria Molza, Benedetto Varchi, Giovanni Mamro Arcano, etc.) included in the collection " Opere burlesche " ( Flor. 1548-55, 2 vols; dass " Naples " 1723, 3 vols, and more ) as well as in selection printed behind the issue of "Orlando" in the " Classici italiani " ( Mail. 1806).
In addition, one has from Berni several other less significant poems and prose writings and a number of letters. Also known as the Latin poet, he has distinguished himself. This " Rime, poetry latine e lettere " issued by Virgili ( Flor. 1885). See Virgili, Francesco B. ( Flor. 1882).