FRUGONI, CARLO INNOCENZO. - Poet, b. in Genoa on 21 Nov. 1692, d. in Parma on 20 Dec. 1768. He spent most of his life at the Farnese court, praised and acclaimed as the greatest lyric poet of his age.

In his youth he had entered the Order of the Somaschi, which he left quite soon through the good offices of Card. Bentivoglio, and of whose education very little remained in the worldly and erotic character of his lyric poetry. His vast poetic output (collected in 10 vols. in the complete edition of the Opere poetiche, Parma 1779) is a fluent, oratorical, frivolous epitome of the poetic taste of the Arcadia, which has in F. its most fortunate representative, but also the most superficial and epicurean.

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BIBL.: G. Carducci, Dello svolgimento dell'ode in Italia, in Ediz. Naz. Carducci Opere, XV, Bologna 1936, pp. 1-81; E. Bertana, In Arcadia, Naples 1909, passim; C. Calcaterra, Storia della poesia fregoniana, Genoa 1930; A. Eunini, C. I. F. all'corri dei Parnesi e dei Barboni di Parma, Palermo 1930-31; M. Fabini, Arcadia e illuminismo, in Questioni e correnti di storia letteraria, Milan 1949, p. 503 ff.

Giorgio Petrocchi

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Frugoni, Carlo Innocenzo

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