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Carlo Alessandro Guidi
Portrait of Carlo Alessandro Guidi, c. 1700
Born(1650-06-14)14 June 1650
Died12 June 1712(1712-06-12) (aged 61)
Resting placeSant'Onofrio, Rome
Occupations
  • Poet
  • Intellectual
  • Playwright
  • Titleabbot
    Parent(s)Bernardo Guidi and Maddalena Guidi (née Figarolla)
    Writing career
    Pen nameErilo Cleoneo
    Language
  • Italian
  • Literary movement
    • Baroque
  • Neoclassicism
  • Carlo Alessandro Guidi (14 June 1650 – 12 June 1712), Italian lyric poet, was born at Pavia.

    Biography[edit]

    As chief founder of the well-known Roman Academy of the Arcadians, he had a considerable share in the reform of Italian poetry, which at that time was dominated by the baroque extravagance of the poets Giambattista Marino and Claudio Achillini and their school. Guidi, Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, and the critic and jurisconsult Gravina attempted to foster a straightfoward use of language.[1]

    The genius of Guidi was lyric in the highest degree; his songs are written with singular force, and charm the reader, in spite of touches of bombast. His most celebrated song is that entitled Alla Fortuna (To Fortune), which was a much admired work of poetry in the 17th century.[1]

    Guidi was squint-eyed, humpbacked, and of a delicate constitution, but possessed undoubted literary ability. His poems were printed at Parma in 1671, and at Rome in 1704. In 1681 he published at Parma his lyric tragedy Amalasunta in Italia, and two pastoral dramas Daphne and Endymion. The last had the honor of being mentioned as a model by the critic Gravina, in his treatise on poetry.[1]

    Less fortunate was Guidi's poetical version of the six homilies of Pope Clement XI, first as having been severely criticized by the satirist Settano, and next as having proved to be the indirect cause of the author's death. A splendid edition of this version had been printed in 1712, and the pope being then in Castel Gandolfo, Guidi went there to present him with a copy. On the way he found out a serious typographical error, which he took so much to heart that he was seized with a strokeatFrascati and died on the spot.[1]

    Guidi was honoured with the special protection of Ranuccio II, duke of Parma, and of Queen Christina of Sweden.

    Works[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Guidi, Carlo Alessandro". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 687.

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