Bandino Gualfreducci (1565 – 5 March 1627) was an Italian Jesuit, humanist and poet.

Bandino Gualfreducci
Born1565
Died5 March 1627(1627-03-05) (aged 61–62)
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)Jesuit, humanist and poet

Biographie

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Bandino Gualfreducci was born at Pistoia, joined the Jesuits, and taught rhetoric for six years at the Roman College.[1] Later he became Latin Secretary to the General of the Order, and finally, near the end of his life, retired to the Jesuits' house in Rome, where he died.[2]

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Bandino Gualfreducci wrote a considerable amount of Latin verse, principally dramas. He was author of several Latin poems of religious content and of some theatrical pieces that were performed at the Roman College.[3] His miscellaneous verse was collected in the following volume: Variorum Carminum libri sex. Sophoclis Oedipus Tyrannus eodem interprete. Rome (apud heredem Barth. Zannetti), 1622. Gualfreducci took an unusual interest in the Greek Anthology; and it may well be that it was owing to his interest that it came to play a part in Jesuit education.[4] The sixth book of his Carmina is wholly made up of translations from the Greek epigrams arranged roughly in the order of the Planudean collection. The section is headed: 'E Graeco libro Anthologiae.'

These translations in many instances are the same as those published in the Selecta Epigrammata of 1608[5] under the initials 'B. Gu.,' and it seems probable that Gualfreducci was the editor of that Selection.[4]

Gualfreducci's collection includes also a Latin version of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.

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  • Hieromenia seu sacri menses, Rome, 1622, 1625, in-12: a collection of Latin poems in praise of every saint celebrated by the Church every day of the year.
  • Variorum carminum libri sex, ibid., 1622, in-12 (online).
  • Sigeris, Tragœdia, ibid., 1627, in-12.
  • Oratio de Passione Domini, ibid., 1641, in-12.

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  1. ^ Carlos Sommervogel. Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Vol. 3. p. 1898.
  2. ^ Michaud & Michaud 1857, p. 11.
  3. ^ Stefania Tutino (2013). Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture. Oxford University Press. p. 200. ISBN 9780199324996.
  4. ^ a b Hutton 1935, p. 259.
  5. ^ Selecta Epigrammata ex Florilegio et alia quaedam ex Veteribus Poetis comicis potissimum Latino carmine conversa. Rome, 1608. Pp. 363 + [5].

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