The Bust of Luigi Gonzaga di Castiglione (1745 -.
in the Palazzo Braschi.
Inscribed Christopher Hewetson fecit 1776
Marble Bust 65 cms.
Heir to the Gonzagas of Castigleone he was born in Venice, his father died when he was young.
In 1773 having gone
to Vienna, he reached an agreement with the imperial agents of Maria Theresa, who
offered him a lifetime income of 10,000 florins per year. On 26 July 1773 he
signed a deed with which he renounced all rights to the ancestral fiefdom of Castiglione and
was thus able to collect the first installment of the income, which allowed him
to escape from the relative poverty in which he had always lived.
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Frontispiece portrait of the author by Domenico Corvi, engraved by Volpatto.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-1109-597
GONZAGA DE CASTIGLIONE (Prince Louis de) L'homme de lettres bon citoyen, philosophical and political speech Geneva, 1777. French edition, translated by Guéneau de Montbéliard, of this philosophical speech delivered at the Académie des Arcades in Rome in 1776.
Il Museo di Roma racconta la città: Volume interamente a colori, oltre 500 ...By Aa.Vv.
“We judge the incomparable Poet to be superior to sex,
excellent in extemporaneous singing, and endowed with such extraordinary and
sublime ingenuity, that she is well worthy of the conspicuous honor of the
Capitoline Degree granted to her by the Sovereign Authority, for the greater
increase of Italian Good Letters, and to perpetuate glory of Arcadia and
Rome"
These are the words of the examiners of the Academy of
Arcadia who explained how worthy Maria Maddalena Morelli was of that poetic
coronation which until then had only been granted to Petrarca, Tasso and
Perfetti . On the other hand, Morelli had managed to conquer several rulers of
her time with her talent for poetry and above all for poetic improvisation .
She was then also admitted to the Arcadia Academy under the pseudonym of
Corilla Olimpica. A significant fact for an 18th century Italian woman who sacrificed
her married life for the love of poetry, abandoning her husband and son .
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Sepulchral Monument for Poet Maria Maddalena Morelli
by Giuseppe Barberi (Architect) 1746 - 1809).
Drawing
Pen and brown ink, graphite.
21.2 x 29.4 cms.
Image from the Smithsonian Institute.
https://www.si.edu/object/sepulchral-monument-poet-maria-maddalena-morelli:chndm_1901-39-280
Note to New York Pub. Library. This is how it should be done!!
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