AFFÒ, IRENEO. - Scholar and man of letters, b. at Busseto (Parma) in 1741, d. at Parma in 1797. He was a Friar Minor and until 1777 taught at Ferrara and Guastalla.

Making extensive use of the work of Quadrio, he composed a Dizionario precettivo ed istorico della poesia volgare (Parma 1777), a collection of the so-called Cantici volgari di s. Francesco (Guastalla 1777) and the Memorie degli scrittori e letterati parmigiani (5 vols., Parma 1789-97), which is considered his best work and was later continued by A. Pezzana. In 1793 he published the Storia di Parma, which remained unfinished at the year 1346. He also tried his hand at poetry, but with very modest results. He edited an edition of Poliziano's Orfeo, which was held in esteem by Carducci and by I. Del Lungo. But A.'s greatest merit remains that of having devoted himself with a scholar's diligence to the cultivation of the traditions and memories of his city.

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BIBL.: P. Pozzetti, Elogio di I. A., 2nd ed., Parma 1802; C. Modona, Bibliografia del p. Ireneo A., Parma 1898; G. Ferretti, in Arch. stor. per le prov. parm., 1910 and 1915; A. Giannini, Il p. Ireneo A., Busseto 1915.

Nicolò Vivona

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