Lodovico Dolce

Lodovico Dolce (* 1508 in Venice, † 1568 ibid ) was an Italian humanist, poet, writer, translator, and art theorist.

Life and work

The originating from a secondary branch of a prestigious Venetian family Dolce received, after he became an orphan early, through the support of wealthy families Loredan and Cornaro training in Venice and Padua. By this way gained extensive education and, in particular because of its language skills and expertise he then worked until his death for the Venetian Gabriele Giolito Druckeroffizin of de ' Ferrari. His duties were varied and heterogeneous there: Dolce supervised editions, translated - often for the first time ever - antique classic in the Italian vernacular and published his own writings. It is therefore to be among the so-called Italian Polyhistorii. Special recognition he has today as the author of 1557 published by Giolito Dialogo della pittura intitolato l' Aretino, one of the most important art treatises of the Cinque Cento. He is also involved with various writings strongly to the development and dissemination of Imprese and the emblem.

According to a recent estimate Dolce responsible in his time at least 96 Giolito own works, 202 editions of foreign authors and 54 translations. Among the published by him modern authors find figures such as Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Mario Equicola, Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Bembo, Ludovico Ariosto or Tasso Bernardo. Among the translated by Dolce ancient writers, for example, Homer, Aristotle, Euripides, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, Seneca and Virgil could be mentioned. After his death in 1568 Lodovico Dolce was buried in the Venetian church San Luca Evangelista, but his grave is no longer discoverable.

Modern editions ( in selection)

  • Lodovico Dolce, Dialogo del modo di accrescere e la memoria conservar, ed. by Andrea Torre, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2001
  • Lodovico Dolce, I quattro libri delle Osservationi, ed. Paola Guidotti, Pescara, Libreria Editrice dell'Università 2004
  • Lodovico Dolce, Terzetti per le " product range ". Poesia oracolare nell'officina di Francesco Marcolini, ed. Paolo Procaccioli, Treviso, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche - Viella, 2006
  • Lodovico Dolce, Tieste, ed. by Stefano Giazzon, Turin, RES Editrice, 2010 (ISBN 978-88-85323-58-2 )
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