Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
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 Pio IX, he composed poems and a cantata in his honour, set to music by Rossini and performed on the Capitol for New Year’s Day 1847.
A literary critic and Dante scholar, he wrote canzoni, odes, and sonnets. Noteworthy are the canto Una notte di Dante, an ode deploring the slave trade in Black people, and another on the death of Napoleon’s son. His religious poems were numerous,
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PRINTERS’ MARKS — Title page of the Quaestiones naturales of Alessandro d’Afrodisia, Venice 1541, with the printer’s mark of Girolamo Scoto. — Copy in the Vatican Library.
(phot. Pont. comm. arch. crist.) MARCHI, GIUSEPPE - Autograph memorandum of Fr. G. M. sent to Pope Gregorio XVI - Archives of the Society of Jesus.among them a sonnet against the Protestant Church. He translated Anacreon and Horace elegantly.
BIBL.: Works: Poesie, edited by A. Borgognoni, Firenze 1878. Studies: R. Barbiera, Il poeta degli schiavi, in Immortali e dimenticati, Milano 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. Milano 1943, pp. 420-24. Lanfranco Fiore
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“MARCHETTI, GIOVANNI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII (1952), p. 45. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/marchetti-giovanni.
