Dionigi Strocchi (6 January 1762, Faenza - 15 April 1850, Ravenna [1] ) was an Italian educator, writer, classical scholar and translator.
Dionigi Strocchi (6 January 1762, Faenza - 15 April 1850, Ravenna [1] ) was an Italian educator, writer, classical scholar and translator.
After studying in a seminary, he moved to Rome in 1783, where he later graduated in jurisprudence. [2] In 1790 he found a job in the Secretariat of Latin Letters in the Holy College. [2] He then returned to his birthplace at the end of the 18th century to support the Cisalpine Republic and its successor the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, gaining important jobs in both administrations;. [2] Between 1806 and 1809 he was rector and eloquence lecturer at the Evangelista Torricelli state gymnasium in the city. [3] [4]
He was a friend of Vincenzo Monti, Ugo Foscolo, Paolo Costa, Giovanni Paradisi and Ennio Quirino Visconti and established the neoclassical literary school in Faenza. When the Napoleonic regime fell he returned to the Papal States, taking refuge in San Marino and briefly imprisoned in Bologna. [2] He did not oppose the Restoration and composed a hymn in honour pope Pius IX and his election in 1846. [5] Pius made him a senator in 1848, two years before his death. [2] [6]
He wrote his own poems but is better known as a translator, particularly for his metrical translation of Callimachus's hymns in 1805, which Giosuè Carducci adjudged to be finer than the originals. He also produced metrical translations of Virgil's Georgics in 1831 and his Eclogues in 1834. At the time of his death he was working on a version of Louis I of Bavaria's poems - this was published posthumously in 1856, including two previously published translations of 1836 and 1844.
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