Niccolò Forteguerri

See also: Forteguerri

Niccolò Forteguerri (born the November 7th 1674 with Pistoia, in Toscane - died the February 17th 1735 with Rome) was a monk Italy N of the beginning of the 18th century which was cardinal - one has habit to call it the Young person to distinguish it from another of the same cardinal name - and poet.

Biography

Niccolò Forteguerri belonged to the same family as celebrates it philologist and hellenist Scipione Forteguerri (1466 - 1515).

It had a brilliant fortune with its spirit, its enjoué character and its talent for poetry, and was high with ecclesiastical dignities by Clément XI, Innocent XIII and Clément XII. It delivered to the flames before dying all its new manuscripts.

One preserved of him:

  • the Comedies of Terence , in Italian worms, 1736;
  • Ricciatdetto ( Richardet ), 1738, poëme heroicomic in the kind of Berni, it composed it as while being played and by challenge, in order to prove how much this kind is easy.

This poem was translated into French worms by Anne-François Duperrier-Dumouriez, 1766, and by Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, 1797.

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