Agostino Lampugnani (c. 1586 – c. 1666) was an Italian Benedictine monk and Baroque writer.
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| Born | Giovan Battista Lampugnani c. 1586 |
| Died | c. 1666 Milan, Duchy of Milan |
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| Pen name | Giovan Battista Mognalpina |
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Biography edit
Giovan Battista Lampugnani was born in Milan around 1586 into a prominent noble family.[1] He joined the Benedictine Order in 1599, taking the name of Agostino and entering the Milanese monastery of San Simpliciano.[2] An accomplished Latinist and scholar, in the early 1630s he became a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti of Venice. He befriended Angelico Aprosio, with whom he conducted a regular correspondence which would last until the end of his life.[3] Lampugnani was prior of Santo Spirito in Pavia until 1640.[2] He subsequently became prior of San Procolo in Bologna, where he lived for some years. He became a member of the Accademia degli Indomiti and befriended several Bolognese writers and artists, including Andrea Barbazza and Giovan Francesco Neri.[2] Lampugnani distinguished himself by his academic lectures, which were later published in Milan under the title Diporti academici.[2] In 1642 he published in Venice, under the pseudonym of Giovan Battista Mognalpina, the chivalric romance Il Celidoro, one of the most successful Italian novels of the 17th century.[4] In the late 1640s Lampugnani moved definitively to Milan. In his later years, he tried to have all his books published in a single edition, but died in 1666 before the project could be realized.[2]
Works edit
Lampugnani was an erudite and prolific author. He is best known for his part in the polemics over Giambattista Marino's Adone; his Antiocchiale (Anti-spyglass, 1629) argued against Tommaso Stigliani in favour of Marino. The work was never published probably due to the intervention of the Inquisition.[2] Lampugnani sent the manuscript to Aprosio, who included it in his collection as part of the library that he established in his native Ventimiglia.[2] Lampugnani wrote also a detailed account of the plague that struck Milan around 1630, a key source for Manzoni's description of the plague in his novel The Betrothed.[5] Lampugnani's lively satire La Carrozza da nolo (The Rented Carriage, 1648) marks the entrance of the word moda (fashion) into the Italian lexicon.[6][7]
List of works edit
- Clio plaudens et exultans in serenissimi principis Venetiarum Antonii de Priulis electionem. Venice: Antonio Pinelli. 1618.
- Cecilia predicante, rappresentatione sacra di d. Agostino Lampugnano monaco Cassinese. Venice: Francesco Baba. 1619.
- La ninfa guerriera fauola pastorale di Gio. Battista Lampugnano. Venice: Marco Ginami. 1624.
- Il Celidoro. Bologna: Carlo Zenero. 1642.
- La pestilenza seguita in Milano l'anno 1630 raccontata da Agostino Lampugnano priore di S. Simpliciano. Milan: Carlo Ferrandi. 1634.
- Sette strali d'amore vibrati da Giesù Christo in croce all'anima fedele spiegati da D. Agostino Lampugnani, priore casinense. Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni. 1640.
- Turrianae propaginis arbor explicita D. Augustini Lampugnani, mediolanensis patritij, monaci cassinensis. Bologna: Giacomo Monti. 1642.
- Squittinio d'amore opera academica di don Agostino Lampugnani. Bologna: Nicolò Tebaldini. 1643.
- L'Heroe mendico ouero De' gesti di S. Alessio ... libri cinque di d. Agostino Lampugnani. Milan: Filippo Ghisolfi. 1645.
- Della carrozza da nolo, overo del vestire e usanze alla moda. Bologna: Carlo Zenero. 1648.
- Della carrozza di ritorno, ouero dell'esame del vestire e costumi alla moda, libri due di Gio. Tanso Mognalpina. Milan: Lodovico Monza. 1650.
- Lumi della lingua italiana diffusi da regole abbreuiate, e dubbi esaminati per lo Fuggitiuo Academ. Indomito. Bologna: Carlo Zenero. 1652.
- Diporti Academici di d. Agostino Lampognani abbate casinense hauuti in diuerse Academie. Dedicati all'illustriss. et eccellentiss. sig. don Luigi de Benauides Cariglio. Milan: Lodovico Monza. 1653.
Notes edit
- ^ Spada 1977, p. 58.
- ^ a b c d e f g Cirilli 2004.
- ^ Spada 1977, p. 61.
- ^ Cazzamini Mussi, Francesco (1947). Milano durante la dominazione spagnola, 1525–1706. Milan: Ceschina. p. 831.
- ^ Paulicelli 2016, p. 209.
- ^ Gaetana Marrone; Paolo Puppa (2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Routledge. p. 694. ISBN 978-1-135-45530-9. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
The term moda (fashion), in fact, first appears in the Italian lexicon with the publication of Agostino Lampugnani's La carrozza da nolo (The Rented Carriage, 1648).
- ^ Catricalà, Maria (2011). "Moda, linguaggio della". Enciclopedia dell'Italiano (in Italian). Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
Bibliography edit
- «Agostino Lampugnani Milanese». 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. 10–13 (on-line).
- Spada, Gabriella (1977). "Notizie sulla vita e sulle opere di Agostino Lampugnani (1586? - 1666?)". Manzoni e Il Seicento Lombardo. Milan: Vita e Pensiero: 54–72.
- Cirilli, Fiammetta (2004). "LAMPUGNANI, Agostino". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 63: Labroca–Laterza (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Paulicelli, Eugenia (2016). "La Moda and its Technologies: Agostino Lampugnani's La Carrozza da nolo, ovvero del vestire e usanze alla moda (The rented carriage or of clothing and fashionable habits, 1648–1650)". Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy. Routledge: 205–224. ISBN 9781134787036.
- Ceriotti, Luca (2016). "Libro in stampa, casa in piazza. Aprosio, Lampugnani e la fatica dell'apparire". Archilet. Per uno studio delle corrispondenze letterarie di età moderna. Verona: QuiEdit: 427–459. ISBN 978-88-6464-370-0.