FIACCHI, LUIGI. - Priest, fabulist, known in Greek fashion as Clasio. Born at Scarperia di Mugello on 4 June 1754, died at Firenze on 25 May 1825. He taught mathematics and philosophy, first at the Seminary of Firenze and then at the Scuole Leopoldine, and was a member of the Accademia della Crusca.
He wrote: Dei proverbi toscani; Osservazioni sul Decamerone; Lezione sopra alcuni luoghi della Divina Commedia; he edited the works of Lorenzo il Magnifico, Varchi, Cavalca, and Simone Sigoli. Inclined to satire, he composed verse tales and the mock-heroic poem La treccia rubata. A refined Latinist in the Carmina and the Lusus pastoralis, he also left translations of several hymns of the Church and the poetic paraphrase of the Dies irae, Gli Evangeli della domenica e le principali feste dell'anno, and Le pastorali per il S. Natale. His major work is the Favole (Firenze 1807), composed for pedagogical purposes—the F. was called the Christian Aesop—in which, in the purity of the Mugello language, he reveals his finest qualities as an educator and poet.