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Agnolo Firenzuola (
28 September 1493 - c.
1545) was an
Italian poet and
litterateur.
Biography
Agnolo Firenzuola was born at
Florence. The family name was taken from the town of
Firenzuola, situated at the foot of the
Apennines, its original home.
The grandfather of Agnolo had obtained the citizenship of Florence and transmitted it to his family. Agnolo was destined for the profession of the
law, and pursued his studies first at
Siena and afterwards at
Perugia. There he became the associate of the notorious
Pietro Aretino, whose foul life he wasn't ashamed to make the model of his own. They met again at
Rome, where Agnolo practised for a time the profession of an
advocate, but with little success.
It is asserted by all his biographers that while still a young man he assumed the monastic dress at
Vallombrosa, and that he afterwards held successively two
abbacies.
Girolamo Tiraboschi alone ventures to doubt this account, partly on the ground of Firenzuola's licentiousness, and partly on the ground of absence of evidence; but his arguments are not held to be conclusive.
Firenzuola left Rome after the death of
Pope Clement VII, and after spending some time at Florence, settled at
Prato as abbot of
San Salvatore.
His writings, of which a collected edition was published in
1548, are partly in
prose and partly in
verse, and belong to the lighter classes of
literature. Among the prose works are
Discorsi degli animali, imitations of
Oriental and
Aesopian fables, of which there are two
French translations;
Dialogo delle bellezze delle donne, also translated into French;
Ragionamenti amorosi, a series of short tales in the manner of
Boccaccio, rivalling him in elegance and in licentiousness;
Discacciamento delle nuove lettere, a controversial piece against
Giangiorgio Trissino's proposal to introduce new letters into the
Italian alphabet; a free version or adaptation of
The Golden Ass of
Apuleius, which became a favorite book and passed through many editions; and two
comedies,
I Lucidi, an imitation of the
Menaechmi of
Plautus, and
La Trinuzia, which in some points resembles the
Calandria of
Cardinal Bibbiena.
His poems are chiefly
satirical and
burlesque. All his works are esteemed as models of literary excellence, and are cited as authorities in the vocabulary of the
Accademia della Crusca. The date of Firenzuola's death is only approximately ascertained. He had been dead several years when the first edition of his writings appeared (1548).
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