Giuseppe Parini

Giuseppe Parini ( May 22nd 1729 Bosisio; † August 15, 1799 in Milan ) was Italian poet and satirist

Life

Parini showed unusual talent at an early stage and devoted himself at first to the study of theology, but had, paralyzed by a severe illness in part, without the spiritual life, therefore, turned to the literature.

After his first poetic work had remained quite unnoticed, he entered 1763 with a didactic and satirical poem Il Mattino, on which established his fame. Two years later, as a continuation Il mezzogiorno; but only after his death Il Vespro and La notte were made known.

These four poems, in which the idle, frivolous and vicious life of the Milanese nobility is scourged with the finest irony, thus form a whole under the general title: Il giorno and are among the noblest of modern Italian literature.

The Milanese aristocracy felt deeply hurt by, and Parini would be serious persecutions have seen exposed, if he had not found in the Austrian Governor of Lombardy, Count Karl Joseph Firmian, a protector.

This gave him the editor of the Gazzetta milanese and appointed him professor of poetry and eloquence at the Palatine School in Milan and, after canceling the same in 1769 as a teacher at the High School of Brera. He later became director of this institution.

After the French invasion Parini was a member of the Milan municipality, but lost this office after the return of the Austrians.

Tellingly, wit and irony, original imagination, blooming, powerful style and a masterly versification ( versification ) make his major work. His other poems are often far behind the same back, and only under his odes are some excellent. The Giorno has often been printed.

His hometown Bosisio was renamed in honor of the poet in Bosisio Parini.

Libretto

  • Ascanio in Alba. Serenata teatrale ( opera ) in two acts. Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. UA October 17, 1771 Milan (Teatro Ducale )
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