Bartolomeo Dotti | |
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Born | 1651 |
Died | 7 November 1713 | (aged 61–62)
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Language | Italian language |
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Notable works | Satire |
Parents | Pasquino Dotti and Ottavia Dotti (née Vinacesi) |
Bartolomeo Dotti (Italian: [bartoloˈmɛːo ˈdotti]; 1651 – 7 November 1713) was an Italian satirical poet and adventurer of the Baroque age. [1]
Born in Brescia in 1651, Dotti led a turbulent life. He showed a literary inclination from an early age and devoted himself to the study of the Greek and Latin classics, especially Horace, Persius and Juvenal. [2] Accused by the Venetian authorities of complicity in an assassination attempt, he fled to Milan, but he was imprisoned in 1685 in the fortress of Tortona. [2] There he penned his self-defence, much praised at the time. [1] In 1692 he managed to escape from prison and fled to Venice. [3] Soon after, he enrolled in the Venetian army and he distinguished himself in the Morean War, earning a reprieve from his exile. [2] But his troubles pursued him, and he was mysteriously assassinated in Venice on 7 November 1713. [2]
His literary work includes Rime ("Rhymes") and Sonetti ("Sonnets"), published in 1689, and were subdivided like Giambattista Marino’s lyrics into the encomiastic, descriptive, and erotic. [1] Dotti does not develop Marino’s insistence on nature and the senses; instead he strikes a more moralistic tone that has its roots in a Lombard poetic tradition later to flourish in the poetry of Giuseppe Parini and Vittorio Alfieri. [2] He is most famous for his Satire, published posthumously in Paris n 1757, [2] in which he rails against Venetian hypocrisy in a popular and semi- dialectal Italian. [1] His satire is personal and Dotti frequently alludes to real persons, using their real names. [2] Many of his lyrics are included in Benedetto Croce's influential anthology of Baroque poetry (Lirici marinisti, Bari, 1910).
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