Bartolomeo Tortoletti
Bartolomeo Tortoletti (1560 – 1647) was an Italian poet and writer.
Bartolomeo Tortoletti | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1560 Verona, Republic of Venice |
| Died | 1647 Rome, Papal States |
| Pen name | Filone Romano Negletto |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Italian |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Period | Late Middle Ages |
| Literary movement | Baroque |
| Notable works | Agrippina la maggiore |
Life
Born in Verona in 1560, Tortoletti spent most of his life in Rome. His parents’ names are not known.
It is likely that he obtained his doctorate in theology before moving permanently to Rome, where he initially went several times for occasional reasons. In Rome he became a member of the Accademia degli Umoristi.
At least until 1641 Tortoletti exercised the profession of secretary to Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia, who died that year. His links with the House of Savoy are also testified by the epitaph in memory of Emanuele Filiberto, who died on 4 August 1624 (In obitu serenissimi principis Philiberti de Sabaudia, Romae 1624).
Under Urban VIII Tortoletti lived the most intense season of his literary activity. Member of the circle of Barberini’s proteges, he enjoyed Papal favour and became a close friend of some of the major intellectual personalities of the time, such as Gabriel Naudè[1] and Daniël Heinsius.[2]
Tortoletti died in Rome in 1648. He wrote a Latin tragedy in five acts, Agrippina major, but he is best known for an epic on the Biblical character of Judith (Bartholomaei Tortoletti Iuditha vindex e vindicata, 1628). He also wrote in Italian the tragedies Gionata (1624), Il giuramento o'vero Il Battista santo, and La scena reale (1645), as well as Rime (1645).
Main works
- Ossuniana conjuratio qua Petrus Ossunae regnum neapolitanum sibi desponderat (Venice, 1623 quarto);
- Iuditha Vindex et Vindicata. An epic poem with commentary, it was first issued in Latin in 1628 by the Vatican press and again in 1648 in an expanded Italian edition, Giuditta Vittoriosa; both were illustrated.[3]
- Accademia Pompeiana, seu defensio magni Pompeii in administratione belli civilis, a series of erudite debates with Alessandro Guarini (Rome, 1639, octavo).[4]
Editions
- Bartolomeo Tortoletti (2017). Agrippina la maggiore. Biblioteca barocca. Argo. ISBN 978-88-8234-217-3.
References
- Anna Lisa Schino (1989). "Incontri italiani di Gabriel Naudé". Rivista di storia della filosofia. 44 (1): 25. JSTOR 44025244.
Tra gli Umoristi che assieme a lui frequentavano Palazzo Mancini, Naudé cercò soprattutto la compagnia dell'oratore Gaspare Simeoni, del poeta Lelio Guidiccione e di Bartolomeo Tortoletti.
- Sellin, Paul R. (1968). Daniel Heinsius and Stuart England, with a Short-Title Checklist of the Works of Daniel Heinsius. Leiden-London. Oxford University Press. p. 62.
Through his ties with Naudeus and others of the circle of De Thou then enjoying Papal favour, Heinsius was soon corresponding with Barberini’s proteges Giovanni Doni, Professor of Greek at Florence, Bartolomeo Tortoletti, the poet and theologian, Balthasar Bonifacius, honoured for his learning both in Rome and Venice, and Lucas Holsten, a former student of Heinsius’ at Leiden, now in the Cardinal’s service.
- Bartolomeo Tortoletti, Ivditha Vindex et Vindicata (Rome: Stamperia Vaticana, 1628), was actually composed ca. 1608; Giuditta Vittoriosa (Rome: Ludovico Grignani, 1648). The engravings are after designs by Antonio Tempesta and Nicolas de la Fage. The only modern analysis is Lorenzo Carpanè, Da Giuditta a Giuditta. L'epopea dell'eroina sacra nel Barocco (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2006), chapter 1.
- Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 378.
External links
Italian Wikisource has original text related to this article: Autore:Bartolomeo Tortoletti- Piantoni, Luca (2019). "TORTOLETTI, Bartolomeo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 96: Toja–Trivelli (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.