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Antonio Lupis (31 March 1620 – unknown)[1] was a prolific Italian writer of the Baroque period.

Antonio Lupis
Antonio Lupis
Born(1620-03-31)March 31, 1620
Molfetta, Kingdom of Naples
Died11 December 1700(1700-12-11) (aged 80)
Bergamo, Republic of Venice
OccupationWriter
LanguageItalian
NationalityItalian
PeriodLate Middle Ages
Literary movementBaroque
Notable worksLa marchesa d'Hunsleij (1677)
L'eroina veneta (1689)

Biography


Born at Molfetta, the son of Flaminio Lupis and his wife Maria de Ceglia, both members of the local nobility, he spent his literary career in Venice.

He published numerous historical romances that found a welcoming public. In 1677 he published La Marchesa d'Hunsleij, a romanticised hagiographic biography of Lady Margaret Gordon, mother of the Scottish-born Capuchin friar John Forbes (1570/71–1606), that passed through eighteen printings before his death, and was reprinted as late as 1723. Turned into a drama by the poet Francesco Petrobelli, it continued to hold the stage for more than a century.

Some of his works turn upon moral reflections. He wrote a moralizing vita of Giovanni Francesco Loredano, founder of the Accademia degli Incogniti, of which Lupis was also a member, and a book on morals titled Il Chiaro-oscuro di Pittura Morale, Apresso Giacomo Ferretti, Venice (1690).

Several of his books, like Il Plico (1675), Il dispaccio di Mercurio (1681), La  segretaria morale (1687) and Pallade su le poste (1691), deal with artistic themes and give us interesting information about the painters and sculptors of that time. Of particular interest is a vita of his friend, the painter Evaristo Baschenis, written during the artist's lifetime.


Partial anthology



References


  1. treccani

Sources






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