Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
ROSSIGNOLI, GIOVANNI PIETRO. – Philosopher and sociologist, born in Borgomanero on 3 September 1851, died in Novara on 24 March 1909. In 1870 he enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at Turin, where he—
“opera buffa, you know that well! Little science, a little heart, that is everything. So be blessed and grant me Paradise. Passy, 1863. G. Rossini.”
BIBL.: among the vast Rossini bibliography are cited: N. Bettoni, R. e la sua musica, Milan 1824; S. Silvestri, Della vita e delle opere di G. R., there 1874; L. Daurise, R., Brussels 1907; E. de Gurzon, R., there 1920; G. Radiciotti, G. R. (opera fondamentale per gli studi rossiniani), 3 vols., Tivoli 1928–35; R. Bacchelli, R., Turin 1941. Luisa Cervelli
ROSSO FIORENTINO, GIOVAN BATTISTA DI JACOPO DI GASPARE, detto il. – Painter, born in Florence in 1495, died at Fontainebleau in 1540.
The formation of R., difficult to define, took place within the sphere of Andrea del Sarto’s school, with derivations from Piero di Cosimo and Dürer and, subsequently, with marginal borrowings from Michelangelo, often arriving at solutions parallel to those of Beccafumi. His first surviving documented work is the fresco of the Assumption in the small cloister of the Annunziata in Florence, commissioned in 1517, which shows evident borrowings, besides those from Fra’ Bartolomeo, from Dürer: an indication of the artist’s eccentric position in relation to contemporary and surrounding figurative culture. Dating from 1518 is the Madonna and Four Saints for the hospital of S. Maria Nuova, now in the Uffizi, which almost frightened the commissioner because of its bizarre interpretation of the sacred theme, whereas in this very work the expressionistic foundation of the style and the astonishing intellectual freedom are particularly appreciable to modern taste. The musician angel reproduced here in color is likewise preserved in the Uffizi. In 1521 R. signed the Deposition now in the Pinacoteca of Volterra, another major work of passionate and pathos-filled intensity. From the same year
(Alinari photograph)
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“ROSSIGNOLI, GIOVANNI PIETRO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X (1953), p. 824. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/rossignoli-giovanni-pietro.
