Michelangelo Torcigliani

Michelangelo Torcigliani
Born	(1618-03-00)March 1618 Lucca, Republic of Lucca
Died	25 November 1679(1679-11-25) (aged 61) Venice, Republic of Venice
Occupations	Poet Writer Librettist
Parent(s)	Giuliano Torcigliani and Apollonia Torcigliani (née Morastrelli)
Writing career
Language	Latin Italian language
Period	17th century Baroque literature
Genres	Poetry translation libretto
Literary movement	Baroque Marinism
Notable works	Echo cortese

Michelangelo Torcigliani (March 1618 – 25 November 1679) was an Italian Baroque poet from Lucca.

Biography

Torcigliani is considered by critics the librettist of Monteverdi’s lost opera Le nozze d’Enea con Lavinia (The Marriage of Aeneas to Lavinia). The work was performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1641. Torcigliani is the dedicatee of the opera L'Ulisse errante (1644) written by the Giacomo Badoaro. He was a member of the Venetian intellectual circle, the Accademia degli Incogniti, and a friend and correspondent of several of the most distinguished Italian men of letters of the day, including Agostino Mascardi, Angelico Aprosio, Francesco Pona, Giovanni Francesco Loredan and Guido Casoni. Leonardo Quirini dedicated to him his poetry collection I vezzi d'Erato. Torcigliani died in Venice, November 25, 1679.

Works

After his death Torcigliani's works appeared under the title Echo Cortese, at Lucca, published by the Marescandoli, in three parts, the first in 1680, the second in 1681, and the third in 1683. His translations into Italian verse of the Song of Songs (in the second vol.), of the Attis of Catullus, of a certain number of Anacreontea, and of several Greek epigrams are particularly praiseworthy.

Bibliography

• «Michel Angelo Torcigliani Lucchese». In : Le glorie de gli Incogniti: o vero, Gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de' signori Incogniti di Venetia, In Venetia : appresso Francesco Valuasense stampator dell'Accademia, 1647, pp. 336–339 (on-line).
• Hutton, James (1935). The Greek Anthology in Italy to the Year 1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 365.
• Taddeo, Edoardo (1993). "La cetra e l'arpa. studio su Michelangelo Torcigliani". Studi Secenteschi. 34 (3): 3–60.
• Taddeo, Edoardo (1999). "Torcigliani e Delfino, Patriarca atomista". Studi Secenteschi. 40 (83): 83–95.
• Slawinski, M. (2002). "Torcigliani, Michelangelo". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-818332-7. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
• Michelassi, Nicola (2007). "Michelangelo Torcigliani è l'incognito autore delle Nozze di Enea con Lavinia". Studi secenteschi. XLVIII: 381–386.
• Rosand, Ellen (2007). Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520933279. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
• Rossini, Francesco (2019). "TORCIGLIANI, Michelangelo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 96: Toja–Trivelli (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. pp. 220–223. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.