Andrea Barbazza

Andrea Barbazza
Born	c. 1582 Bologna, Papal States
Died	7 August 1656(1656-08-07) (aged 73–74) Bologna, Papal States
Occupations	Poet intellectual civil servant
Spouses	Bianca Bentivoglio ​ ​ (m. 1614; died 1629)​ Silvia Boccaferri ​ (m. 1648)​
Children	3
Father	Bartolomeo Barbazza
Writing career
Pen name	Robusto Pogomega
Language	Italian language
Period	17th century Baroque
Genres	Poetry drama treatise
Literary movement	Baroque Marinism

Andrea Barbazza (1581/2 – 7 August 1656) was an Italian Marinist poet and literary critic.

Biography

He was born of a noble family in Bologna between 1581 and 1582. Between 1611 and 1613, Barbazza was first ‘maestro di camera’ and after ‘primo cameriere’ of cardinal Ferdinando Gonzaga.[1] After a long stay in Rome (1624-1632), he settled permanently in his native Bologna, where he occupied important legal and administrative offices.[2] He was an expert on the code of chivalry and on questions of honour.[1]

On 26 April 1614 he married Countess Bianca Bentivoglio, granddaughter of Bianca Cappello, by whom he had a son, Ferdinando.[1] In 1648, after the death of his first wife, he married Countess Silvia Boccaferri, by whom he had two sons, Filippo and Bartolomeo.[1]

Barbazza was a member of the Accademia dei Gelati of Bologna, the Accademia degli Incogniti of Venice and the Accademia degli Umoristi of Rome.[1] He was decorated with the Order of Saint Michael by Marie de' Medici in 1612.[1]

Works

Barbazza was a friend and correspondent of Claudio Achillini, Angelico Aprosio, Pietro Della Valle, Giambattista Basile and Giambattista Marino.[1] Marino stayed often with him during his stays in Bologna.[1] Barbazza defended the poetry of Marino against the attacks of Tommaso Stigliani in his Strigliate (Scoldings), published in 1629 with the jocular pseudonym of Robusto Pogomega.[3] He wrote also the pastoral dramas L'Amorosa Costanza and L'Armidoro (1646), and a number of lyrics published in contemporary anthologies.[3]

List of works

• Le Strigliate a Tommaso Stigliani del Signor Robusto Pogommega, dedicate all'Eminentiss. e Reverendiss. Sig. Cardinale Piermaria Borghese. In Spira: appresso Henrico Starckio. 1629.
• Canzone in morte della Contessa Bianca Bentivoglj. In Bologna. 1631.
• L'Amorosa Costanza fauola tragicomica boschereccia del co. Andrea Barbazzi senatore in Bologna. In Bologna: per Giacomo Monti. 1646.
• L'Armidoro, Favola Pastorale. In Bologna. 1646.

Notes

1. De Blasi 1964.
2. "Barbazza, Andrea". Enciclopedia on line. Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
3. Slawinski 2002.

Bibliography

• Mazzucchelli, Giammaria (1758). Gli Scrittori d'Italia. Vol. II, 1. Brescia. pp. 287–289.
• Albertazzi, Adolfo (1923). "Il cav. Barbazza poeta e marito". Il Secolo. XX, XXII (6): 410–414.
• De Blasi, Nicola (1964). "BARBAZZA, Andrea". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 6: Baratteri–Bartolozzi (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
• Slawinski, M. (2002). "Barbazza, Andrea". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-818332-7. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
• Riga, Pietro Giulio (2015). "Polemiche e sodalità intorno a Marino. Le "Strigliate" di Andrea Barbazza". Studi secenteschi. LVI: 103–116.

External links

• «Andrea Barbazza Bolognese». In : Le glorie de gli Incogniti: o vero, Gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de' signori Incogniti di Venetia, In Venetia : appresso Francesco Valuasense stampator dell'Accademia, 1647, pp. 22–25 (on-line).
• «Andrea Barbazza». In : Memorie imprese, e ritratti de' signori Accademici Gelati di Bologna, In Bologna : per li Manolessi, 1672, pp. 16–19 (on-line).