FREZZI, FEDERICO. - Dominican, theologian and man of letters, b. at Foligno in the mid-fourteenth century; he taught theology at Florence, Pisa, and Bologna; he was bishop of Foligno from 1404; d. at Constance, where he had gone for the Council, in 1416.

Chiefly in emulation of Dante, but also of Petrarch and Boccaccio, he composed (from before 1394 to about 1403) a poem of 74 cantos in terza rima: the Quadrigie, that is, the four kingdoms, of Love, of Satan, of the Vices, of the Virtues (the last three recall Dante's three kingdoms), in which, drawing from the events of his own spiritual life, through allegories and personifications, a lesson, he finds occasion to invite everyone to raise themselves to the supreme Truth. The poem is on the whole horrid and artificial, despite the merits of its form, which earned it its fame and still earn it remembrance.

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BIBL.: Edition: Il Quadrigie, edited by E. Filippini. Bari 1914. Cf. also: G. Rotondi, F. F., la vita e le opere, Todi 1921; E. Filippini, Studi frezziani, Foligno 1922.

Alberto Chiari

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