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Camillo Querno

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Poet (a bad poet, a poetaster, in fact) from Monopoli, Apulia, Italy, present at court of Pope Leo X, where he was given a mock crown of laurel and such. He composed an epic poem of some 20,000 verses titled Alexias. The people at the papal court in Rome made fun of him. He was also quite the drunkard, as depicted in the Pope's remark:

Archipoeta facit versus pro mille poetis !
Et pro mille aliis archipoeta bibit !

Famously nicknamed the "Antichrist of wit" by Alexander Pope in his Dunciad

Sources

Primary

• The original source?
• A good place to start looking up new material surrounding the Pope
• A section from The life and pontificate of Leo the Tenth, Volumes 1-2 by William Roscoe
• Continuation in Volume 3 (bad transcription)

• A great retelling of the original source
• A review of the previous book
• A good source
• [1]
• Important section/mention in an old Italian source

• (in Italian) A list of some of his works!
• (in Italian) A notice for one work

Secondary

• "Quer'no" from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898
• A note from The poetry of Pope's Dunciad by John E. Sitter

• A review of a potentially interesting book!
• Concerning the same previous book
• More specific details concerning the book

• (in French) According to this source (on page 984), Camillo Querno published a book, De bello neopolitano, in 1529!
• (in Italian) There is a street in Monopoli called "Via Chiasso Camillo Querno"!
• (in Italian) In fact, it seems that there are two streets bearing the name!
• (in Italian) This document states that:

Una curiosità: sulla disfida e l'assedio di Barletta Camillo Querno, detto l'arcipoeta, scrisse un poema di 105.000 versi dedicato all'imperatore CarloV, scritto in soli sei mesi. Sappiamo per certo che l'imperatore non ricevette mai il poeta, che nessuno osò mai ripubblicarlo e che forse ne esiste una sola copia superstite. Per gli amanti delle statistiche si credeva che il poema più lungo in lingua italiana fosse L'Italia liberata dai Goti di Giambattista Trissino, tutt'altro che disprezzabile per qualità, primo accenno ad un nascente spirito nazionale

• (in Italian) Some sort of list I haven't figured out yet
• (in Italian) Anecdote about Querno's suicide, which doesn't seem historically accurate:

L’improvvisatore Camillo Querno, autore di un poema di ventiduemila versi latini intitolato Alexiados, serviva di trastullo alle cene di papa Leone X, dove veniva inghirlandato con corone di foglie di cavolo e premiato con bocconi che egli avidamente si divorava stando in piedi presso una finestra. Abbandonata la corte papale per fuggire quell’umiliazione si recò a Napoli, dove cadde in tanta miseria che, scrive il Tiraboschi, «lacerandosi da se stesso colle forbici il ventre e le viscere, disperatamente si uccise».

• (in Italian) Passing mention about the court

Tertiary

• Small mention
• Passing comment
• A 1800 play where Querno's relation to the Pope is mentioned. (Proof a certain influence of Alexander Pope's poem?)
• (in Italian) Rather obscure passing mention in a note
• (in German) About Querno being an improviser (and a buffoon...)

Concerning the "Camillo Querno" pseudonym from 18th century

Links/Sources

• Book data
• Book data
• The book, on sale!
• The book, on sale here also
• Links Jonathan Odell to Camillo Querno
• Jonathan Odell
• Yet another link to Jonathan Odell publishing his satire The American Times under the pseudonym of "Camillo Querno"
• Neat article on Odell
• Genealogy of Jonathan Odell
• Book data containing the full title of the play
• Some old but interesting notes concerning the publication of the play/manuscript
• Also links Querno to Odell
• Also attributes The American Times to Odell
• Open Library record on the book
• Note from The Prince of Parthia by Thomas Godfrey Jr.. The play is here attributed to a certain George Cockings!
• Same text
• Gives a citation from a 1957 edition of Querno's play
• Lesson 5, p. 18. Pretty lame, but features a quote from The American Times: A Satire in Three Parts:

Hear thy indictment, Washington, at large;
Attend and listen to the solemn charge:
Thou hast Supported an atrocious cause
Against thy King, thy Country, and the laws