#angelo ambrogini

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Italian literature tournament - Famous beefs edition

Giuseppe Ungaretti against Massimo Bontempelli in a duel hosted in Luigi Pirandello's house in 1926.

The second micro-tournament will be the "ILT - Famous beefs edition". It will take part right after the Commedia dell'Arte Tournament one that will finish today!

The title is almost self explanatory: I was reading months ago about some rpf fights and quarrels in history, some of them about italian historical figures, and just thinked to recreate certain famous divorces disputes in the italian literary canon and let choose your great minds what is the most sauchy! The other reason is that I wanted to give a gift to an important part of the ILT fanbase, the Dante Alighieri/Guido Cavalcanti fandom, insering them as cortenders (together).

IMPORTANT: the challenge will not be "author X vs author Y" but "beef X vs beef Y". The ony reason to do so is that - I think - some of these belligerent duos could be imbalanced due to some authors who aren't studied at school/university, making the choice towards the more famous one between the two very predicable. That doesn't mean that another beef edition could be created in the future and the choice will be made between authors.

Certainty of death, small chance of success… What are we waiting for?

I collected some famous disputes and put down to the list at the end of the post, but like the past edition of the principal tournament, I opened a google form for all of you if you want to insert your ideal beef that all of you want to see! There are two spaces, one for the two contenders and the other to explain briefly some lore/why you think is a juicy beef for us to know, in a way that at the end all the duos will have an explaination on why they're in this tournament.

Giuseppe Ungaretti vs Massimo Bontempelli

Ludovico Ariosto vs Torquato Tasso

Luigi Pulci vs Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano

Marsilio Ficino vs Giovanni Pico della MIrandola

Dante Alighieri vs Guido Cavalcanti (this is for you, tumblr)

Italo Calvino vs Pier Paolo Pasolini

Luigi Pirandello vs Grazia Deledda

Gabriele D'Annunzio vs Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Gabriele d'Annunzio vs Alberto Savinio

Vincenzo Monti vs Ugo Foscolo

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Poliziano (Angelo Ambrogini) (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 14 July 1454  

RIP: 24 September 1494

Ethnicity: White - Italian

Occupation: Scholar, poet, teacher, translator

Note: Served the Medici family as a tutor to their children, and later as a close friend and political confidant.

[italianartsociety]

by Maggie Bell 

Lucrezia di Lorenzo de’ Medici was born on 4 August 1470 to Clarice Orsini and Lorenzo il Magnifico.  She received an education from her grandmother Lucrezia Tornabuoni, a vernacular poet (pictured above), and from her mother, though she may also have been tutored by Angelo Ambrogini, known as Poliziano, a humanist in the service of her father.  Lucrezia grew up in a tumultuous period for the Medici. The Pazzi family’s attempted assassination of Lorenzo and Giuliano de’Medici took place in 1478, when Lucrezia was eight years old.  In light of her family’s precarious situation, Lucrezia’s marriage was viewed as a strategic opportunity, and she was eventually promised to one of the Medici allies, Jacopo Salviati, who she married in 1486. 

Lucrezia participated in the vibrant atmosphere of artistic patronage in fifteenth-century Italy.  She supported Florentine writers like Girolamo Benivieni, and also financially contributed to building projects in Rome at the behest of the Medici pope Leo X, particularly focusing on convents.  Lucrezia died in December of 1553, living to the age of 83. 

Further reading:

“MEDICI, Lucrezia de”, nell’enciclopedia Treccani, Accessed August 3, 2017. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lucrezia-de-medici_(Dizionario-Biografico)/

Tomas, Natalie R. (2003). The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Lucrezia Tornabuoni, attributed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, c. 1475, tempera and oil on panel, The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.).

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Angelo Ambrogini detto il Poliziano (1454-1494) (via @evasi-senza-mezzi)