Accademia degli Apatisti
Abbreviation | Gli Apatisti |
---|---|
Formation | 1632 (1632) |
Dissolved | 7 july 1783 |
Purpose | Cultivation of Latin and Italian literature |
Headquarters | Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
Official language | Italian |
Remarks | Motto: Oltre i confini ancor del mondo nostro ("Beyond the confines of this world of ours") |
The Accademia degli Apatisti was a scholarly society founded in Florence in 1632 and associated with the Studio Fiorentino. Together with the Accademia degli Umidi and the Accademia della Crusca it was one of Florence’s dominant literary academies of the XVII century.
History
The Accademia degli Apatisti was founded by Agostino Coltellini and Benedetto Fioretti under the patronage of Cosimo III de' Medici. The Academy had grown out of meetings held by Coltellini and his young companions in his lodgings in the Via dell'Oriuolo, during and immediately after the plague of 1630-1, for the purpose of mutual assistance and encouragement in their studies. By the year 1638, the Academy had been fully established. Their name derives from the Greek term ἀπάθεια, impassibility, describing the rational, emotionally detached attitude towards life upheld by the Academy members. The Apatisti adopted the sun for their emblem. Their motto was "Oltre i confini ancor del mondo nostro" ('Beyond the confines of this world of ours'), a line by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso.[1] The Academy meetings were held in Coltellini's house.[2]
One of the rules of the Apatisti (and there was a similar custom in most of the Italian academies) was that every member should, in his academic connexions, be known not by his own name but by some anagram or pseudonym. Coltellini adopted the anagrammatic name “Ostilio Contalgeni”.[2]
Such were the attractions of this academy, and so energetic was Coltellini in its behalf, that within ten or twenty years after its foundation, it had a fame among the Italian academies equal, in some respects, to that of the first and oldest, and counted among its members not only all the eminent Florentines, but most of the distinguished literati of Italy, besides cardinals, Italian princes and dukes, many foreign nobles and scholars, and at least one pope.[3] When John Milton visited Florence in 1638-9 he befriended many of the Apatisti, notably Benedetto Buommattei, Carlo Dati and Agostino Coltellini. Not only did he attend meetings of the Academy but more than likely applied for membership.
On 7 July 1783 the new Habsburg-Lorraine Grand Duke, Leopold II, abolished the Florentine Academy, the Accademia della Crusca and the Accademia degli Apatisti and established in their place an amalgam of the three, the Real Accademia Fiorentina.[4]
Notable members
- Alessandro Adimari
- Lodovico Adimari
- Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis
- Ansaldo Ansaldi
- Angelico Aprosio
- Benedetto Averani
- Benedetto Buonmattei (Boemonte Battidente)
- Jean Chapelain
- Agostino Coltellini (Ostilio Contalgeni)
- Carlo Roberto Dati (Ardaclito)
- Ferdinando II de' Medici
- Stefano della Bella
- Mattia de Paoli
- Giovanni Battista Fagiuoli
- Benedetto Fioretti (Udeno Nisieli)
- Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder
- Giovanni Lami
- Lorenzo Lippi (Perlone Zipoli)
- Antonio Malatesti (Alamonio Transetti)
- Lorenzo Magalotti
- Domenico Maria Manni
- Carlo Antonio Manzini
- Alessandro Marchetti
- Gilles Ménage
- Francesco Redi
- Cristina Roccati
- Francesco Rondinelli
- Francesco Rovai (Rainero Fucasco)
- Anton Maria Salvini
- Salvino Salvini
- Carlo Antonio Stendardi
- Nicolas Steno
- Pietro Susini
- Anton Maria Vannucchi
- Vincenzo Viviani
- Stefano Zannowich
References
- ^ Gerusalemme Liberata 14. 35.
- ^ a b Capucci, Martino (1982). "COLTELLINI, Agostino". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 27: Collenuccio–Confortini (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- ^ Masson, David (1875). The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time. Vol. 1. Macmillan and Company. p. 614.
- ^ Maylender, Michele (1926). Storia delle accademie d'Italia. Bologna: Cappelli. pp. 219–226.
Bibliography
- Benvenuti, Edoardo (1910). Agostino Coltellini e l'Accademia degli Apatisti. Pistoia: Officina tipografica cooperativa.
- Lazzeri, Alessandro (1983). Intellettuali e consenso nella Toscana del Seicento. L'accademia degli Apatisti. Milan: Giuffrè.
- Francesco Adorno, ed. (1988). Accademie e istituzioni culturali in Toscana. Florence: Leo S. Olschki.
External Source
- Toscano, Anna. "I luoghi della Scienza in Toscana - L'Accademia degli Apatisti". Archived from the original on 3 October 2006.
- v
- t
- e
- Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna
- Accademia Cosentina
- Accademia degli Apatisti
- Accademia degli Arcadi
- Accademia degli Incamminati
- Accademia degli Incogniti
- Accademia degli Infiammati
- Accademia degli Inquieti
- Accademia degli Intronati
- Accademia degli Oziosi
- Accademia degli Svogliati
- Accademia degli Umidi
- Accademia degli Umoristi
- Accademia dei Gelati
- Accademia dei Georgofili
- Accademia dei Lincei
- Accademia dei Ricovrati
- Accademia dei Risvegliati
- Accademia del Cimento
- Accademia del Disegno
- Accademia della Crusca
- Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
- Accademia di Agricoltura di Torino
- Accademia di San Luca
- Accademia di Santa Cecilia
- Accademia Fiorentina
- Accademia Galileiana
- Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
- Accademia Neoplatonica
- Accademia Pontaniana
- Academia Secretorum Naturae
- Accademia Veneziana
- Associazione Agraria Subalpina
- Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
- Dante Alighieri Society
- Italian Mathematical Union
- Italian Physical Society
- Royal Academy of Italy
- Società Entomologica Italiana