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Girolamo Zoppio

Italian writer and scholar


Italian writer and scholar

Girolamo Zoppio (date unknown5 June 1591) was a 16th-century Bolognese writer. A street in Bologna and a lecture hall in the University of Bologna both bear his name.

Life

He was born in Bologna, and began his career as a doctor and joined the medical faculty, where he assisted Vesalius in his dissections. His son, Melchiorre Zoppio, would follow him into a dual academic and medical career. In his spare time, Girolamo cultivated scholarship and philosophy, becoming a professor of both. He taught logic and morality for some years in Macerata, where he set up the Accademia di Catenati, which taught in Italian not Latin. He then returned to take up the chair in literature in Bologna, where he died

Zoppio took an active part in the grammatical disputes that arose during his lifetime between the literary figures of Italy. He declared his support for Annibal Caro in the famous dispute begun by his famous canzone De gigli d'oro and was also one of the defenders of Petrarch and Dante. In this, he acted as a humanist with a love of the language of his birthplace. In Difesa del Petrarcha, one of his pamphlets, Zoppio fiercely attacked Girolamo Muzio. Fontanini pretended that this was because Muzio had said that philosophers were patriarchs to heretics, but he could not find any other reason for Zoppio's attack, stating that its heat was inseparable from all discussion. Love of ancient philosophy was in fact also a humanist trait.

Works

  1. the first four books of the Aeneid by Virgil, translated into Italian in ottava rima, Bologna, 1554, in-8 ;
  2. Rime et prose, ibid., 1567, in-8° - the only prose piece in the work is his defence of the Canzone by Annibale Caro.
  3. L'Atamante traged., Macerata, 1578, in-4°.
  4. Ragionamenti in defensa di Dante e del Petrarcha, Bologna, 1583, in-4 ;
  5. Risposta allé opposizioni sanesi, Fermo, in-4° ;
  6. Particelle poetiche sopra Dante, Bologne, in-4° ;
  7. La poetica sopra Dante, ibid., in-4° (see: la Bibliotheca of Fontanini, vol. 1, p. 349 and following.).

Notes

Bibliography

  • Girolamo Zoppio, Il Mida, a cura di Luca Piantoni, Manziana, Vecchiarelli, 2017.
  • {{cite encyclopedia |access-date= 10 August 2024

Sources

References

  1. Zoppio, ''Difesa del Petrarcha'', p. 79.
  2. Fontanini, ''Bibliot. d'eloquenz.'', vol. 2, p. 477.
  3. Cette pièce n'a probablement jamais été jouée ; et ce n'est point aujourd'hui qu'elle réussirait à la représentation. Cependant le style a toute la pureté des bons écrivains de ce siècle et y joint souvent beaucoup d'élégance. Il ne manque pas même d'une certaine force ; mais la composition est faible. Outre la nullité du sujet mythologique adopté par Zoppio, on voit avec regret les prologues d'[[Euripide]] et les machines dramatiques des anciens religieusement reproduites par l'inexpérience des modernes. Les théories du théâtre étaient alors si peu avancées que Muret, dans sa lettre à Zoppio, lui reproche d'avoir introduit dans sa pièce la division par actes et par scènes, enveloppant ainsi dans un même reproche deux procédés dramatiques, dont l'un est purement arbitraire, tandis que l'autre existe de toute nécessité, même lorsqu'on ne l'apercevrait point par l'analyse, ou qu'on négligerait de lui donner un nom. Au reste, cette objection était si peu raisonnable que Muret lui-même, dans une tragédie latine (''Julius Casar''), que l'on trouve dans la collection de ses œuvres, introduisit la division par actes et crut à propos d'indiquer le commencement des scènes. On peut voir la critique de Muret dans le recueil de ses lettres, lib. 4, epist. 50, Voici comment il s'exprime sur le compte de l'[[Athamas]] : ''Totum autem poema olei Academiam, olel Lyceum, olet philosophiam, non illam horridam et incullam et autelinguem aut stulte clamosam qv.ce hodie scholas prope omnes occupavit, sed veluslam iltnm Allicam, etc.''
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