Bandino Gualfreducci (1565–1627) was an Italian Jesuit, humanist and poet.
Bandino Gualfreducci | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1565 |
| Died | 5 March 1627 (aged 61–62) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Jesuit, humanist and poet |
Biographie edit
Bandino Gualfreducci was born at Pistoia, joined the Jesuits, and taught rhetoric for six years at the Roman College.[1] Later he became Latin Secretary to the General of the Order, and finally, near the end of his life, retired to the Jesuits' house in Rome, where he died.[2]
Works edit
Bandino Gualfreducci wrote a considerable amount of Latin verse, principally dramas. He was author of several Latin poems of religious content and of some theatrical pieces that were performed at the Roman College.[3] His miscellaneous verse was collected in the following volume: Variorum Carminum libri sex. Sophoclis Oedipus Tyrannus eodem interprete. Rome (apud heredem Barth. Zannetti), 1622. Gualfreducci took an unusual interest in the Greek Anthology; and it may well be that it was owing to his interest that it came to play a part in Jesuit education.[4] The sixth book of his Carmina is wholly made up of translations from the Greek epigrams arranged roughly in the order of the Planudean collection. The section is headed: 'E Graeco libro Anthologiae.'
These translations in many instances are the same as those published in the Selecta Epigrammata of 1608[5] under the initials 'B. Gu.,' and it seems probable that Gualfreducci was the editor of that Selection.[4]
Gualfreducci's collection includes also a Latin version of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.
List of works edit
Notes edit
- ^ Carlos Sommervogel. Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Vol. 3. p. 1898.
- ^ Michaud & Michaud 1857, p. 11.
- ^ Stefania Tutino (2013). Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture. Oxford University Press. p. 200. ISBN 9780199324996.
- ^ a b Hutton 1935, p. 259.
- ^ Selecta Epigrammata ex Florilegio et alia quaedam ex Veteribus Poetis comicis potissimum Latino carmine conversa. Rome, 1608. Pp. 363 + [5].
Bibliography edit
- Carlos Sommervogel: Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, vol. 3, p. 1898 (online).
- Hutton, James (1935). The Greek Anthology in Italy to the Year 1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 258–9.
- Michaud, Joseph-François; Michaud, Louis-Gabriel (1857). "Gualfreducci (Bandino)". Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne (in French). Vol. 18. Paris: chez Madame C. Desplaces. p. 11.
- Filippi, Bruna (2001). Il teatro degli argomenti: gli scenari seicenteschi del teatro gesuitico romano: catalogo analitico. Institutum historicum Societatis Iesu. pp. 83, 121, 301.