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Born | Giovan Battista Lampugnani c. 1586 |
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c. 1666 Milan, Duchy of Milan |
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Pen name | Giovan Battista Mognalpina |
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Agostino Lampugnani ( c. 1586 – c. 1666) was an Italian Benedictine monk and Baroque writer.
Giovan Battista Lampugnani was born in Milan around 1586 into a prominent noble family. [1] He joined the Benedictine Order in 1599, taking the name of Agostino and entering the Milanese monastery of San Simpliciano. [2] An accomplished Latinist and scholar, in the early 1630s he became a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti of Venice. He befriended Angelico Aprosio, with whom he conducted a regular correspondence which would last until the end of his life. [3] Lampugnani was prior of Santo Spirito in Pavia until 1640. [2] He subsequently became prior of San Procolo in Bologna, where he lived for some years. He became a member of the Accademia degli Indomiti and befriended several Bolognese writers and artists, including Andrea Barbazza and Giovan Francesco Neri. [2] Lampugnani distinguished himself by his academic lectures, which were later published in Milan under the title Diporti academici. [2] In 1642 he published in Venice, under the pseudonym of Giovan Battista Mognalpina, the chivalric romance Il Celidoro, one of the most successful Italian novels of the 17th century. [4] In the late 1640s Lampugnani moved definitively to Milan. In his later years, he tried to have all his books published in a single edition, but died in 1666 before the project could be realized. [2]
Lampugnani was an erudite and prolific author. He is best known for his part in the polemics over Giambattista Marino's Adone; his Antiocchiale (Anti-spyglass, 1629) argued against Tommaso Stigliani in favour of Marino. The work was never published probably due to the intervention of the Inquisition. [2] Lampugnani sent the manuscript to Aprosio, who included it in his collection as part of the library that he established in his native Ventimiglia. [2] Lampugnani wrote also a detailed account of the plague that struck Milan around 1630, a key source for Manzoni's description of the plague in his novel The Betrothed. [5] Lampugnani's lively satire La Carrozza da nolo (The Rented Carriage, 1648) marks the entrance of the word moda (fashion) into the Italian lexicon. [6] [7]
The term moda (fashion), in fact, first appears in the Italian lexicon with the publication of Agostino Lampugnani's La carrozza da nolo (The Rented Carriage, 1648).