Bartolomeo Dotti

Bartolomeo Dotti
Born1651
Brescia, Republic of Venice
Died7 November 1713(1713-11-07) (aged 61–62)
Venice, Republic of Venice
Occupations
  • Poet
  • Intellectual
  • Soldier
Writing career
LanguageItalian language
Period
Genres
Literary movement
Notable worksSatire
ParentsPasquino 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]

Biography

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]

Works

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).

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Diffley 2002.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Pellegrino 2016.
  3. ^ Bartolomeo Dotti entry (in Italian) by Antonio Belloni in the Enciclopedia Treccani, 1932

Bibliography

  • Diffley, P. (2002). "Dotti, Bartolomeo". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-818332-7. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  • Levi, Ercole (1896). "Un poeta satirico: Bartolomeo Dotti". Nuovo Archivio Veneto. XII: 5–77.
  • Filippini, Enrico (1906). "Una miscellanea poetica del secolo XVIII contenente parecchie satire di Bartolomeo Dotti". Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana. XIV: 326–339.
  • Vovelle-Guidi, Claire (1994). "Démȇlés et pérégrinations d'un vénitien en marge à travers six lettres inédites de Bartolomeo Dotti". Cahiers d'études romanes. XVIII: 211–237.
  • Vovelle-Guidi, Claire (1995). "Il fascino discreto della nobiltà. Bartolomeo Dotti tra esilio e compromesso". Trimestre. XXVIII (1–4): 157–219.
  • Vovelle-Guidi, Claire (1997). "«Una vita adattata al romanzo»: Bartolomeo Dotti, poeta satirico". Quaderni Veneti. XXVI: 51–93.
  • Boggione, Valter (1997). «Poi che tutto corre al nulla». Le Rime di Bartolomeo Dotti. Turin: Res.
  • Vovelle-Guidi, Claire (1998). "Un regard sur la société vénitienne: Bartolomeo Dotti, un devancier de Goldoni?". La Venise de Goldoni, Actes du colloque en Aix-en-Provence (1-3 décembre 1993). Aix-en-Provence: Université de Provence: 281–294.
  • Barberi Squarotti, Giorgio (2001). "Bartolomeo Dotti: l'arte del sonetto morale". Rivista di letteratura italiana. XIX (1): 79–104.
  • Boggione, Valter (2002). "Dotti, Testi e l'idea della letteratura". Levia Gravia. IV: 181–192.
  • Pellegrino, Angelo (2016). "DOTTI, Bartolomeo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 85: Ponzone–Quercia (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. pp. 523–524. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.