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Accademia dei Gelati

The Accademia dei Gelati (Academy of the Frozen) was a learned society of intellectuals, mainly noblemen, that significantly influenced the cultural and political life of Baroque Bologna. It is considered one of the most important 17th-century Italian academies.[1]

Accademia dei Gelati
AbbreviationI Gelati (“the Frozen Ones”)
Formation1588 (1588)
Dissolved1786
HeadquartersBologna, Papal States
Official language
Italian
RemarksMotto: Nec longum tempus
("It is not a long time")

History

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The Accademia dei Gelati was founded in Bologna in 1588 by a group of young gentlemen associated with the university led by Melchiorre Zoppio.[1] Its members gathered at Zoppio's house, in a marvelous room with a theater and a rich library. Zoppio was one of the Academy's keenest members, adopting the name Caliginoso within it and leaving it a room for its meetings in his will.[2]

The name of the Academy refers to the academicians belief that their literary conversations would "enflame" their "frozen" intellects.

The subjects of the first meetings were love poetry and the Neoplatonic philosophy of love. Later, the Academy developed a great interest in philosophy. Following Plato's philosophical gatherings, the academicians discussed the most subtle philosophical issues after a friendly dinner. They called these meetings "Cene de' saggi" (dinners of wise men).

Influenced by the example of Bologna’s senior poet, Cesare Rinaldi, the Gelati quickly published two verse anthologies, Ricreazioni amorose (1590) and Rime (1597), which were early landmarks in the transition from Petrarchism to Conceptismo.[3] Their verse is characterized by extended metaphors which went well beyond the orthodox Petrarchist canon.

As has recently been recognized, the poets of the Gelati, and Rinaldi especially, played an important role in transforming the late lyric style of Torquato Tasso into the highly sensuous and conspicuously ingenious poetry for which Marino is famous, and it was in Bologna that Marino first encountered many of the imaginative techniques that he so brilliantly developed in his own poetry.

Subsequently, led by Claudio Achillini and Ridolfo Campeggi, the Gelati championed the poetry of Giambattista Marino.[1] Their own later production included much religious verse and tended to the moderate Baroque style typified by another academician, Girolamo Preti.[1]

They published biographies of their leading members as Memorie imprese, e ritratti de' Signori Accademici Gelati (1670),[4] and were also involved as theorists in the development of Bolognese Baroque painting. The Academy had close links with many of the most important Bolognese artists of the day. During Agostino Carracci's funeral in Bologna, it was Lucio Faberio, a member of the Academy, who delivered the funeral oration.[5] The laws of the Accademia dei Gelati were published for the first time in 1670.

Members

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d Slawinski 2002.
  2. ^ Vallieri, Lorena (2020). "ZOPPIO, Melchiorre". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 100: Vittorio Emanuele I–Zurlo (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
  3. ^ Tiraboschi 1824, p. 220.
  4. ^ Testa 2016, p. 203.
  5. ^ Mahon, Denis (1971). Studies in Seicento Art and Theory. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 136.

Bibliography

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  • Slawinski, M. (2002). "Gelati, Accademia dei". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-818332-7. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  • Tiraboschi, Girolamo (1824). Storia della letteratura italiana. Vol. VII. Milan: Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  • Avellini, L. (1982). "Tra Umoristi e Gelati: l'Accademia romana e la cultura emiliana del primo e del pieno Seicento". Studi secenteschi. 23: 109–137.
  • Gardi, Andrea (2011). "Riflessioni sui primi Gelati (1588-1598)" (PDF). In Andrea Csillaghy; Antonella Riem Natale; Milena Romero Allué; Roberta De Giorgi; Andrea Del Ben; Lisa Gasparotto (eds.). Un tremore di foglie. Scritti e studi in ricordo di Anna Panicali. Forum. pp. 423–434. ISBN 978-88-8420-666-4.
  • Gurreri, Clizia, Dentro l'Accademia dei Gelati. Simboli, imprese ed emblemi a Palazzo Zoppio, in B. Alfonzetti, G. Baldassarri e F. Tomasi (a cura di), I cantieri dell'italianistica. Ricerca, didattica e organizzazione agli inizi del XXI secolo, Atti del XVII congresso dell'ADI – Associazione degli Italianisti (Roma Sapienza, 18-21 settembre 2013), Roma, Adi editore, 2014, pp. 1-6 ("online" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 May 2021.).
  • Gurreri, Clizia (2016). "Nec longum tempus': L'Accademia dei Gelati tra XVI e XVII secolo (1588–1614)". The Italian Academies 1525-1700. Networks of Culture, Innovation and Dissent. Taylor & Francis: 186–196. ISBN 9781317196303.
  • Testa, Simone (2016). "Italian Academies and their 'Facebooks'". The Italian Academies 1525-1700. Networks of Culture, Innovation and Dissent. Taylor & Francis: 197–213. ISBN 9781317196303.
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