BONDI, CLEMENTE. - Jesuit and poet, b. at Mezzano Superiore (Parma) on 27 June 1742, d. at Vienna on 20 June 1821. Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1760, he was studying theology at Bologna in 1773 when the Society was suppressed. Having retired to Mantua, he was there librarian of the Zanardi house, where a circle of men of letters gathered. He subsequently held the same office at the court of the archdukes Ferdinand of Austria and Beatrice d'Este, whom he followed to Austria at the time of the French invasion. He finally settled in Vienna, where he taught history and literature to the empress.
An Arcadian shepherd under the name of Metabo Brianno, he published many small poetical compositions, collected in various volumes: Opere edite e inedite di verso e in prosa (3 vols., Venice 1808; 2 vols., Bassano 1811). But he is especially renowned for his translations of Virgil and Ovid into Italian verse: L'Eneide (2 vols., Parma 1790-93) in various reprints, separately or with the following: Le Georgiche (Vienna 1800); La Buccolica (ibid. 1811); Le Metamorfosi di Ovidio (Parma 1806).
Bibliography5 worksA. Pezzana, Scrittori Parmensi, VII, Parma 1833, pp. 491-516; Sommervogel, I, coll. 1703-10; C. Wurzbach, Biograph. Lexicon des Kaiserthums
BIBL.: A. Pezzana, Scrittori Parmensi, VII, Parma 1833, pp. 491-516; Sommervogel, I, coll. 1703-10; C. Wurzbach, Biograph. Lexicon des Kaiserthums Österreich, II, Vienna 1857, pp. 44-45; C. Pariset, Cl. B. e il suo carteggio inedito con G. B. Bodoni, Iesi 1905; C. Frati, Dizionario bio-bibliografico dei bibliotecari e bibliofili italiani, Florence 1934, pp. 110-11.
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Bondi, clemente.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1851. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bondi-clemente.
MLA
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Bondi, clemente.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1851. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bondi-clemente.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_bondi_clemente,
author = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
title = {Bondi, clemente},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1851},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bondi-clemente}
}
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