Giovan Battista Pigna
BornGiovan Battista Nicolucci Edit this on Wikidata
8 April 1529 Edit this on Wikidata
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
Died4 November 1575 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 46)
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
OccupationWriter
MovementRenaissance humanism

Giovan Battista Pigna (April 8, 1529  November 4, 1575) was an Italian humanist, poet and historian from Ferrara. A reformer of the University of Ferrara, Pigna was secretary to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and court historian at Ferrara.[1]

Pigna's I romanzi (1554) argued that chivalric romances like those of Ariosto were a modern form of poetry equal to those considered by Aristotle's Poetics. Torquato Tasso, who succeeded Pigna as court historian, attacked Pigna's defence of Ariostan poetry in his Discorsi dell'arte poetica.[1]

Works

Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata, 1567
  • I romanzi di M. Giouan Battita Pigna ... divisi in tre libri. Ne quali della poesia, & della vita dell'Ariosto con nuouo modo si tratta , 1554
  • (ed.) Poetica Horatiana, 1561
  • Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata (in Latin). Ferrara: Francesco Rossi. 1567.
  • Statuta urbis Ferrariae nuper reformata (in Latin). Ferrara: Francesco Rossi. 1567.
  • Historia de principi di Este, 1570

References

  1. 1 2 Giovan Battista Pigna, Pathways through literature: Torquato Tasso. Accessed 12 May 2013.

Bibliography

  • Girolamo Tiraboschi, Biblioteca modenese, IV, Modena 1783, p. 131;
  • Lorenzo Barotti, Memorie istoriche di letterati ferraresi, II, Ferrara 1793, p. 177;
  • Venceslao Santi, La precedenza fra gli Estensi e i Medici e l'istoria de' Principi d'Este di G. Battista Pigna, in Atti della Deputazione ferrarese di storia patria, IX (1897), p. 35 ff.;
  • Luigi Raffaele, I codici delle rime di Giambattista Pigna, ibid., XXI (1912), p. 35 ff.;
  • Giulio Bertoni, Torquato Tasso e Lucrezia Bendidio, in Poeti e poesie del Medioevo e del Rinascimento, Modena 1922, p. 273 ff.


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