MARCHETTI, GIOVANNI. - Politician and writer, b. at Senigallia on 26 Aug. 1790, d. at Bologna on 28 March 1852. In 1848 he was minister of Foreign Affairs in the Mamiani cabinet. A friend and intimate of Pius IX, he composed poems and a cantata in his honor, set to music by Rossini and performed on the Capitoline for New Year's Day 1847.
A literary critic and Dante scholar, he wrote songs, odes and sonnets. Noteworthy: the canticle Una notte di Dante, an ode deploring the slave trade of Black people, and the one on the death of Napoleon's son. His religious poems are numerous, among them a sonnet against the Protestant Church. He translated Anacreon and Horace elegantly.
Bibliography4 worksWorks: Poesie, edited by A. Borgognoni, Florence 1878. Studies: R. Barbiera, Il poeta degli schiavi, in Immortali e dimenticati, Milan 1901,
BIBL.: Works: Poesie, edited by A. Borgognoni, Florence 1878. Studies: R. Barbiera, Il poeta degli schiavi, in Immortali e dimenticati, Milan 1901, pp. 213-24; L. Mancini, Spigolatore marchettiano, Senigallia 1904; L. Grilli, Di G. M. e dell'opera sua, in Nuova antologia, 60 (1923), pp. 232-43; G. Mazzoni, L'Ottocento, I. Milan 1943, pp. 420-24.
Fiore, Lanfranco. “Marchetti, giovanni.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, coll. 30–31. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/marchetti-giovanni.
MLA
Fiore, Lanfranco. “Marchetti, giovanni.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 30–31. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/marchetti-giovanni.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_marchetti_giovanni,
author = {Fiore, Lanfranco},
title = {Marchetti, giovanni},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {30--31},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/marchetti-giovanni}
}
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