Accademia Fiorentina
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Formation | 1 November 1540 ( 1 November 1540 ) |
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Dissolved | 7 July 1783 ( 7 July 1783 ) [1] : 226 |
Type | Philosophical academy |
Purpose | Promotion of Tuscan as the basis for literary Italian |
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The Accademia Fiorentina was a philosophical and literary academy established in Florence in the Republic of Florence during the Italian Renaissance . It was active from 1540 to 1783.
History
The Accademia Fiorentina was founded in Florence on 1 November 1540 as the Accademia degli Umidi, [2] : 175 or "academy of the wet ones", in contrast to – or parody of – the name of the recently - founded Accademia degli Infiammati , or "academy of the burning ones", of Padova . The twelve founding members were Baccio Baccelli, Bartolomeo Benci, Pier Fabbrini, Paolo de Gei, Antonfrancesco Grazzini , Gismondo Martelli, Niccolò Martelli, Giovanni Mazzuoli, Cynthio d'Amelia Romano, Filippo Salvetti, Michelangelo Vivaldi and Simon della Volta. [2] : 175 Within a few months of its foundation, on 25 March 1541, [2] : 175 the academy changed its name to Accademia Fiorentina, in accordance with the wishes of Cosimo I de' Medici . [3]
In 1783, by order of Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo , the Accademia Fiorentina was merged, together with the Accademia degli Apatisti and the Accademia della Crusca , into the new Accademia Fiorentina Seconda . [1] : 226 [4]
Activities
The principal topic of discussion of the academy was the question of what should constitute the basis for the Italian language , which until about this time was not so called; rather, it was referred to as volgare , roughly "the common tongue". While the Infiammati supported the suggestions of Pietro Bembo and Giovan Giorgio Trissino that the language of Boccaccio and Petrarch should serve as a model for literary Italian, the Umidi believed it should be based on contemporary Florentine usage and on the language of Dante . Three of them, Giambattista Gelli (1498–1563), Pierfrancesco Giambullari (1495–1555) [5] and Carlo Lenzoni (1501–1551), [6] wrote treatises in support of this position. [3]
References
- 1 2 Michele Maylender (1926). Storia delle accademie d'Italia (in Italian). Bologna: L. Cappelli.
- 1 2 3 Robert Nosow (2002). The Debate on Song in the Accademia Fiorentina . Early Music History . 21 : 175–221. Accessed June 2013. (subscription required) .
- 1 2 Michael Sherberg (Spring, 2003). The Accademia Fiorentina and the Question of the Language: The Politics of Theory in Ducal Florence . Renaissance Quarterly . 56 (1): 26–55. The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America. (subscription required) .
- ↑ Anna Toscano (2004). Accademia Fiorentina (in Italian). Florence: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza. Archived 6 January 2014.
- ↑ Pierfrancesco Giambullari ([1551]). Pierfrancesco Giambullari Fiorentino, De la lingua che si parla & scrive in Firenze. Et uno Dialogo di Giovan Batista Gelli sopra la difficultà dello ordinare detta lingua (in Italian). In Firenze: [Lorenzo Torrentino].
- ↑ Carlo Lenzoni (1556). In difesa della lingua fiorentina et di Dante, con le regole da far bella et numerosa prosa. [Colla Orazione di M. Cosimo Bartoli sopra la morte di Carlo Lenzoni] (in Italian). Florenza: Lorenzo Torrentino.
Further reading
- Michel Plaisance (2004). L’Accademia e il suo Principe: cultura e politica a Firenze al tempo di Cosimo I e di Francesco de' Medici; L’Académie et le Prince: culture et politique à Florence au temps de Côme Ier et de François de Médicis . Manziana: Vecchiarelli. (in French)
- Iacopo Rilli (1700). Notizie letterarie ed istoriche intorno agli uomini illustri dell'Accademia Fiorentina . Firenze: Piero Matini. (in Italian).
- Salvino Salvini (1717). Fasti consolari dell'Accademia fiorentina . Firenze: Nella Stamperia di S.A.R, per Gio. Gaetano Tartini e Santi Franchi. (in Italian).
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