FRUGONI, CARLO INNOCENZIO MARIA (16921768)

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FRUGONI, CARLO INNOCENZIO MARIA (16921768) , Italian poet, was born at Genoa on the 21st of November 1692. He was originally destined for the

church

and at the age of fifteen, in opposition to his strong wishes, was shut up in a convent; but although in the following year he was induced to pronounce monastic vows, he had no liking for this

life

LIFE

. He acquired considerable reputation as an elegant writer both of Latin and Italian

prose

PROSE

and verse; and from 1716 to 1724 he filled the chairs of

rhetoric

RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

at Brescia, Rome, Genoa, Bologna and Modena successively, attracting by his brilliant fluency a large number of students at each university. Through Cardinal Bentivoglio he was recommended to Antonio Farnese, duke of Parma, who appointed him his poet laureate; and he remained at the

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

of Parma until the death of Antonio, after which he returned to Genoa. Shortly afterwards, through the inter-cession of Bentivoglio, he obtained from the

pope

the remission of his monastic vows, and ultimately succeeded in recovering a portion of his paternal

inheritance

INHERITANCE

. After the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle he returned to the

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

of Parma, and there devoted the later years of his

life

LIFE

chiefly to poetical composition. He died on the loth of December 1768. As a poet Frugoni was one of the best of the school of the Arcadian

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

, and his lyrics and pastorals had

great

GREAT

facility and elegance.
His collected works were published at Parma in 10 vols. in 1799, and a more complete edition appeared at Lucca in the same year in 15 vols. A selection from his works was published at Brescia in 1782, in 4 vols.

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