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CRESCIMBENI, GIOVANNI MARIO (1663-1728)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 412 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CRESCIMBENI, GIOVANNI MARIO (1663-1728) , Italian critic and poet, was born at
Macerata
  in 1663. Having been educated by a French priest at Rome, he entered the
Jesuits
 ' college of his native town, where he produced a tragedy on the
story of Darius, and versified the Pharsalia. In 1679 he received the degree of
doctor
  of
laws
 , and in 168o he removed again to Rome. The study of Filicaja and Leonico having convinced him that he and all his contemporaries were working in a wrong direction, he resolved to attempt a general reform. In 1690, in conjunction with fourteen others, he founded the celebrated
academy
  of the Arcadians, and began the contest against false
taste
  and its adherents. The
academy
  was most successful; branch societies were opened in all the principal cities of Italy; and the influence of Marini, opposed by the simplicity and elegance of such models as
Costanzo
 , soon died away. Crescimbeni officiated as secretary to the Arcadians for thirty-eight years. In 1705 he was made canon of Santa Maria; in 1715 he obtained the
chief
  curacy attached to the same church; and about two months before he died (1728) he was admitted a member of the order of Jesus.
His principal
work
  is the Istoria della volgar poesia (Rome, 1698), an estimate of all the poets of Italy, past and contemporary, which may yet be consulted with advantage. The most important of his numerous other publications are the Commentarij (5 vols., Rome, 1702-1711), and La Bellezza della volgar poezia (Rome, 1700).


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