Melchiore Cesarotti

Melchiore Cesarotti ( born May 15, 1730 in Padua, † November 3, 1808 in Selvazzano ) was an Italian poet, translator and scholar.

Life

Cesarotti was very young, the chair of rhetoric at the seminary at Padua, but in 1762 was followed by an appointment as teacher in the mansion Grimani in Venice, where he met his tragedies, together with two treatises: Sopra l' origine ed i progressi dell ' arte poetica and Sopra il diletto della tragedian, had printed. Here he met the recently published Ossian of James Macpherson know, went at once to the learning of English and released after six months, a sensational excellent Italian translation of the poem in blank verse, which has contributed to the revitalization of Italian poetry. Particularly admired the harmony of versification. In 1768 Cesarotti was appointed professor of Greek and Hebrew at Padua and became permanent secretary in 1779 at the Academy of Sciences and Arts. In this position, he wrote, among other things, his translation of the Iliad with detailed critical discussion, but which was regarded as misguided work because of the quite extraordinary and mostly unwarranted liberties he allowed himself, while the literary apparatus, by which he knew the same, almost unprecedented its completeness has been appreciated for a lot.

Being around the same time begun widely applied Corso ragionato della Greca letteratura remained unfinished. At the instigation of his academy, he wrote his excellent Saggio sulla filosofia delle lingue applicato alla lingua italiana and as a new unnamed member of the Arcadia to the Rome no less estimated Ragionamento sulla filosofia del gusto. On behalf of the Republican administration, he wrote his Saggio sugli studii that Instruzione suoi fratelli d'un cittadino á meno istruiti and Patriotismo illuminato.

Napoleon Bonaparte made ​​him a Knight Commander of the Order and later to the Iron Crown and gave him one years salary, what turned out to be grateful to him Cesarotti through his poem Pronea (1807 ). Besides the works mentioned, he created a likewise with an extensive commentary accompanying translation of Demosthenes, a variety of smaller treatises, a number of poems and a rich collection of letters. The great fame, whose Cesarotti enjoyed in his lifetime, has not obtained, but at least he is one of the most deserving to science men of his nation. An even started his own complete edition of his works was completed after his death by Giuseppe Barbieri. A selection of the same appeared to Milan in 1820, 4 volumes, and Bologna in 1882 in a ribbon.

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• Literature (18th century)
• Literature ( Italian)
• Poetry
• Of the Order of the Iron Crown
• Person (Padua)
• Historical person (Italy )
• Born in 1730
• Died in 1808
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