Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei

Scipione Maffei, Francesco Scipione Maffei ( born June 1, 1675 Verona, † February 11, 1755 ) was an Italian poet and scholar of the Baroque era.

Life

Maffei came from a angesehehen Bolognese family, marchesi Maffei. He studied in Parma and (since 1698 ) Rome, where he joined the Academy of the Arcadia. Then he established in his native city of Verona is also a " Arcadian Academy ".

Since 1703 he served voluntarily on the Bavarian side in the War of Spanish Succession in 1704 and took part in the Battle of Schellenberg. His brother Alessandro Maffei served as a general in the Bavarian army.

1709 he went to Padua, where he worked on the edition of the " Giornale de ' Letterati d' Italia " together with Apostolo Zeno and Antonio Vallisneri ( 1661-1730 ). He then moved to the poetry and created with his tragedy Merope in 1714 played a lot of masterpiece that established a revival of the Italian drama in the eighteenth century. 1790 published in Venice in a complete edition of his works in eight volumes.

For a stay in Turin in 1710 Maffei worked as an art collector and business archaeological studies to his hometown. 1716 was the Project for a " Museo Lapidario ", today's Museo Lapidario Maffeiano. Between 1718 and 1727 a first version of an exhibition of Maffeis collection of Greek, Etruscan, Roman and frühvenetianischer inscriptions, reliefs, urns, sarcophagi and sculptures was prepared. The first exhibition was revised in the following years and in 1745 completed.

From 1732 to 1736 traveled Scipione Maffei France, England, the Netherlands and Germany. In Paris, was admitted to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 1736, he received an honorary doctorate at the University of Oxford. He also was among the first members of the Accademia degli Agiati in Rovereto. Music Historical importance he obtained with a treatise on the first hammer pianos by Bartolomeo Cristofori.

Survival

  • The " Liceo Maffei " in Verona is named after him;
  • He was friends with Francesco Algarotti.

Works

  • Per la del Principe di Piemonte genteliaco birth. Rome 1699th
  • Conclusioni di amore. Verona 1702nd
  • La prima radunanza della colonia arcadica Veronese ( Cervia, 1705);
  • La scienza Cavalleresca. Rome 1710 ( a treatise against the aristocratic duel beings ).
  • Merope. Tragedy, Venice 1714.
  • Dell ' antica condizione di Verona. Venice 1719.
  • Istoria diplomatica. Mantua in 1727 ( with original documents).
  • Teatro del Marchese Maffei. Venice 1730.
  • Verona illustrata. 2 vols, Verona 1732.
  • Galliae Antiquitates quaedam selectae. Paris 1733 ( French Inscription, King Louis XV. Dedicated ).
  • Graecorum siglae lapidariae collectae atque explicatae. Verona 1746.
  • Della formazione dei fulmini. Verona in 1747.
  • Il Raguet. Comedy, Verona, 1787.
  • Museum Veronense. Verona in 1749.
  • Supplement al Tesoro delle Inscrizioni di Muratori. Lucca 1765th
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