Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
MANFREDI, EUSTACHIO. — Mathematician and man of letters, born in Bologna on 20 September 1674, died there on 15 February 1739. He was public lecturer in mathematics at the University of Bologna (1699), director of the Montalto College (1704), superintendent of the waterways (1711), and astronomer at the Institute of Sciences (1715), which had then been established through the efforts of a group of scholars whom M. had gathered in his home since his youth for scientific and literary purposes, under the name of the Accademia degli In-
MANFREDI, KING OF SICILY - Dante’s Encounter with M. in Purgatory, Fresco by Luca Signorelli (1499–1503) - Orvieto, Cathedral, Chapel of S. Brizio.quieti. M. also cultivated poetry, and from his Rime (1st ed., Bologna 1713, reprinted many times), free from seventeenth-century preciosity and almost all religious in character, something still remains alive today. His works are very numerous: on astronomy, chronology, mathematics, and hydraulics; some works for the theatre, and novellas. Many of his family letters have been printed repeatedly.
BIBL.: D. Provenzal, I riformatori della bella letteratura, Rocca S. Casciano 1900; H. Bédarida, E. M., in Etudes italiennes, 10-11 (1928-29), pp. 75-124, with the complete bibliography of the works; I. Behrens, Die Lehre von der Einteilung der Dichtkunst, Halle 1940, V. indice.
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“MANFREDI, EUSTACHIO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), p. 1157. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/manfredi-eustachio.
