Bartolomeo Zucchi

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Bartolomeo Zucchi , Italian literary man, had been born towards 1560 with Monza, in the Milanais, of a family Patricienne.

In its youth, it cultivated the letters, philosophy, jurisprudence and theology, and was higher than its school-fellows. Having embraced the ecclesiastical state, it went to Rome to improve its talents there. The Cardinal of Mondovi stuck it as secretary, and, during twelve years that it fills this employment, it lived in the intimacy of the scientists and the literary men who made the ornament of the court of Rome.

The cardinal Baronius honoured it with his councils and his friendship. Free from ambition, Zucchi returned in its birthplace, after the death of his/her father (1597), and divided there the remainder of its life between its literary work and the practice of the Christian virtues. The feastday of St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, her owner, celebrating the mass in the church which it had just raised under the invocation of Sainte-Marie, mother of the angels, it felt the first attacks of a contagious disease which caused great devastations in the Milanese. The violence of the evil obliged it to stop the sacrifice, and it was transported in its house, where it expired the following day August 25th 1631. By its will, it bequeathed its house to the Jesuits, to establish a college there. He was member of the Académie degli Insensatia of Perugia.

Apost. Zeno quotes Zucchi among the Italian literary men who were characterized by the beauty from their writing (see the notes on the Bibliotli. of Fontanini). In addition to several works Ascetic S, sermons and Italian translations of the History of Justin , Venice, 1590, in-4°, and of the History of Lorette , of the P. Torsellino, which it increased by a sixth book, one has of him:

idea LED segretario , Venice, 1600, in-4°; reprinted several times with many additions. It is a collection of letters drawn from various elsewhere. preceded by a treaty of the style épislolaire.
Istoria di Teadolinda, reina of Longobardi , Milan, 1613, in-4°; edition quoted by Haym in the bibl. italiana ;
Historia untied côrona ferrea di Longobardi , Milan, 1619, in-4°. (see the Catal. of Pinelli. )
Vita di san Gerardo , etc

These three works are joined together under this title: Tre glorie di Monza cilla , etc, Milan, in-4°. Ghilini gave a note on Zucchi in the Teatrod' uomini lelterati , T. 2, p. 25; but it is inaccurate and incomplete.

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