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Giovanni Maria Cecchi (1518–1587) was an Italian poet, playwright, writer and notary, devoted to the Medici family. His plays were often classically inspired, although some were derived from current events. “Cecchi left in his comedies a treasure of spoken language, which nowadays enables us in a wonderful way to make ourselves acquainted with that age.”[1]

Giovanni Maria Cecchi
Giovanni Maria Cecchi
Born1518
Florence, Republic of Florence
Died1587
San Martino a Gangalandi, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
OccupationWriter, notary, poet, playwright 
MovementRenaissance

Biography


Giovan Maria Cecchi was born in Florence in 1518, to Ser Bartolomeo Cecchi and Ginevra Sannini. He was the rival of Bibbiena, Machiavelli, and Ariosto in portraiture of character and in liveliness of dialogue. A notary by profession, Cecchi completed twenty-one full-length erudite comedies, numerous secular farces, religious dramas, and intermezzi.[2] Of his plays, 95 in number, but few have been printed. They are for the most part imitations of Plautus and Terence; the best of them are: Il Martello, La Stiava, and (the most famous of all) L'Assiuolo. He wrote also religious dramas; among them L'Esaltazione della Croce (1589), written in verse, derived from the Golden Legend, with a setting in Jerusalem at the time of warfare between Christians and infidel Persians, and accompanied by six elaborate intermezzi to express the drama's grandiosity.[3]

According to Ernest Hatch Wilkins Cecchi “may fairly be called the first Italian playwright, in the sense that he was the first Italian writer whose literary activity was busily and almost exclusively dramatic. He wrote about twenty regular comedies, the earlier ones quite in the spirit of his Florentine predecessors, the later ones restrained by the influence of the Counter-Reformation. Some are free adaptations from Plautus or Terence; some are based on novelle; and some reflect current Florentine incident.”[4]

Cecchi wrote among other things, the Contents of "Magistrates of Florence" (1562) and an institutional history of the Florentine State, a treatise on local history. He also composed farces and other comedies on religious subjects.

Giovan Maria Cecchi died at the age of 69 in Gangalandi in 1587, and was buried in the church of Santa Lucia.[5]


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Notes


  1.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bartoli, Adolfo; Oelsner, Hermann (1911). "Italian Literature". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. Radcliff-Umstead 1975, p. 156.
  3. Radcliff-Umstead 1986, p. 35.
  4. Wilkins, Ernest Hatch (1954). A History of Italian Literature. Harvard University Press. p. 263.
  5. Radcliff-Umstead 1986, p. 20.
  6. Giovanni Maria Cecchi, The Horned Owl (L'Assiuolo). Translated with an introduction and notes by Konrad Eisenbichler. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981. (Carleton Renaissance plays in translation; 3).

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Giovanni Maria Cecchi (1518–1587) fue un poeta, dramaturgo, escritor y notario italiano, perteneciente al círculo de los Médici.

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Giovanni Maria Cecchi (parfois francisé en Jean-Marie Cecchi ; Florence 15 mars 1518 - 28 octobre 1587) est un poète comique italien de la Renaissance.



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