Bandino Gualfreducci | |
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Born | 1565 |
Died | 5 March 1627 | (aged 61–62)
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation(s) | Jesuit, humanist and poet |
Bandino Gualfreducci (1565–1627) was an Italian Jesuit, humanist and poet.
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]
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.
Bandino Gualfreducci | |
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Born | 1565 |
Died | 5 March 1627 | (aged 61–62)
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation(s) | Jesuit, humanist and poet |
Bandino Gualfreducci (1565–1627) was an Italian Jesuit, humanist and poet.
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]
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.