Andrea Barbazza

Andrea Barbazza
Born	c. 1582 Bologna, Papal States
Died	7 August 1656(1656-08-07) (aged 73–74) Bologna, Papal States
Occupations	Poet intellectual civil servant
Spouses	Bianca Bentivoglio ​ ​ (m. 1614; died 1629)​ Silvia Boccaferri ​ (m. 1648)​
Children	3
Father	Bartolomeo Barbazza
Writing career
Pen name	Robusto Pogomega
Language	Italian language
Period	17th century Baroque
Genres	Poetry drama treatise
Literary movement	Baroque Marinism

Andrea Barbazza (1581/2 – 7 August 1656) was an Italian Marinist poet and literary critic.

Biography

He was born of a noble family in Bologna between 1581 and 1582. Between 1611 and 1613, Barbazza was first ‘maestro di camera’ and after ‘primo cameriere’ of cardinal Ferdinando Gonzaga. After a long stay in Rome (1624-1632), he settled permanently in his native Bologna, where he occupied important legal and administrative offices. He was an expert on the code of chivalry and on questions of honour.

On 26 April 1614 he married Countess Bianca Bentivoglio, granddaughter of Bianca Cappello, by whom he had a son, Ferdinando. In 1648, after the death of his first wife, he married Countess Silvia Boccaferri, by whom he had two sons, Filippo and Bartolomeo.

Barbazza was a member of the Accademia dei Gelati of Bologna, the Accademia degli Incogniti of Venice and the Accademia degli Umoristi of Rome. He was decorated with the Order of Saint Michael by Marie de' Medici in 1612.

Works

Barbazza was a friend and correspondent of Claudio Achillini, Angelico Aprosio, Pietro Della Valle, Giambattista Basile and Giambattista Marino. Marino stayed often with him during his stays in Bologna. Barbazza defended the poetry of Marino against the attacks of Tommaso Stigliani in his Strigliate (Scoldings), published in 1629 with the jocular pseudonym of Robusto Pogomega. He wrote also the pastoral dramas L'Amorosa Costanza and L'Armidoro (1646), and a number of lyrics published in contemporary anthologies.

List of works

• Le Strigliate a Tommaso Stigliani del Signor Robusto Pogommega, dedicate all'Eminentiss. e Reverendiss. Sig. Cardinale Piermaria Borghese. In Spira: appresso Henrico Starckio. 1629.
• Canzone in morte della Contessa Bianca Bentivoglj. In Bologna. 1631.
• L'Amorosa Costanza fauola tragicomica boschereccia del co. Andrea Barbazzi senatore in Bologna. In Bologna: per Giacomo Monti. 1646.
• L'Armidoro, Favola Pastorale. In Bologna. 1646.

Bibliography

• Mazzucchelli, Giammaria (1758). Gli Scrittori d'Italia. Vol. II, 1. Brescia. pp. 287–289.
• Albertazzi, Adolfo (1923). "Il cav. Barbazza poeta e marito". Il Secolo. XX, XXII (6): 410–414.
• De Blasi, Nicola (1964). "BARBAZZA, Andrea". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 6: Baratteri–Bartolozzi (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
• Slawinski, M. (2002). "Barbazza, Andrea". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-818332-7. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
• Riga, Pietro Giulio (2015). "Polemiche e sodalità intorno a Marino. Le "Strigliate" di Andrea Barbazza". Studi secenteschi. LVI: 103–116.

External links

• «Andrea Barbazza Bolognese». In : Le glorie de gli Incogniti: o vero, Gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de' signori Incogniti di Venetia, In Venetia : appresso Francesco Valuasense stampator dell'Accademia, 1647, pp. 22–25 (on-line).
• «Andrea Barbazza». In : Memorie imprese, e ritratti de' signori Accademici Gelati di Bologna, In Bologna : per li Manolessi, 1672, pp. 16–19 (on-line).