# Ippolito Pindemonte > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ippolito_Pindemonte > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ippolito_Pindemonte.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ippolito_Pindemonte > Source revision: 1352277956 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Italian poet (1753–1828) Ippolito Pindemonte Born (1753-11-13)November 13, 1753 Verona, Republic of Venice Died November 18, 1828(1828-11-18) (aged 75) Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia Other name Polidete Melpomenio Occupation Poet Writing career Language Italian Latin Greek Period 18th century Age of Enlightenment Genres Poetry pamphlet treatise Literary movement Neoclassicism and Pre-romanticism Notable works Italian translation of the Odyssey **Ippolito Pindemonte** (November 13, 1753 – November 18, 1828) was an [Italian](/source/Italian_literature) poet. He was an exponent of Italian [neoclassicism](/source/Neoclassicism) and [pre-romanticism](/source/Pre-romanticism), with poems of the [pastoral](/source/Pastoral) genre and related to [graveyard poets](/source/Graveyard_poets) style. ## Biography Ippolito Pindemonte was born in Verona on 13 November 1753 into an [aristocratic](/source/Aristocracy) family. His brother Giovanni Pindemonte was a prominent dramatist.[1] He was educated at the Collegio di San Carlo in [Modena](/source/Modena) and became a close friend of the mathematician and translator Giuseppe Torelli (1721–1781) and the scholar Girolamo Pompei.[2] He travelled to Rome in 1780 where he entered the [Arcadia](/source/Pontifical_Academy_of_Arcadia) as *Polidete Melpomenio*. He wrote a first tragedy, *Ulisse*, in 1777, which was followed by others, and by various poems and translations. In 1788–90 he visited [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland), [France](/source/France), [England](/source/England), and [Germany](/source/Germany), drawing on his experiences for a novel, *Abaritte* (1790). He was deeply affected by the [French Revolution](/source/French_Revolution), residing in Paris for ten months during 1789. A brief flirtation with revolutionary ideas led to *La Francia* (1790), but he rejected the results of the [reign of Terror](/source/Reign_of_Terror) and fled to Italy.[3] He withdrew from politics and spent much of the rest of his life in his villa near Verona. ## Work A [Romantic](/source/Romanticism) poet, he was principally influenced by his friend [Ugo Foscolo](/source/Ugo_Foscolo) and [Thomas Gray](/source/Thomas_Gray), and was associated with the [Della Cruscans](/source/Della_Cruscans). He devoted much of his life to a translation of the *[Odyssey](/source/Odyssey)*, which was published in 1822.[4] During his career he tried various styles of poetry in his efforts to achieve formal perfection, from the narrative of *Gibilterra salvata* (1782) to the discursive *Epistole in versi* (1804) and *Sermoni* (1819). He finds his own [pre-Romantic](/source/Pre-romanticism) voice best in rustic poetry, publishing a first *Saggio di poesie campestri* in 1788. Though he abandoned his *Cimiteri* when he learnt of the imminent publication of *[Dei Sepolcri](/source/Dei_Sepolcri)* (which [Foscolo](/source/Ugo_Foscolo) dedicated to him), the unfinished poem was published with Foscolo's in a single volume in 1807. From 1805 to 1819 he worked on his remarkable translation of the *Odyssey* (1822), which, rather than epic verve, displays the combination of melancholy and classical grace characteristic of pre-Romantic poetry. Pindemonte is also the author of the short poem *La melanconia* ("Melancholy"), set to music by [Vincenzo Bellini](/source/Vincenzo_Bellini) in the arietta *Malinconia, Ninfa gentile*. ## Pindemonte and Villa Mosconi Bertani Ippolito Pindemonte has been resident for many years in [Villa Mosconi Bertani](/source/Villa_Mosconi_Bertani) where he was involved in the design of the romantic park, a typical [English garden](/source/English_garden) also inspired by the ideas of [Jean-Jacques Rousseau](/source/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau) and the design of [René de Girardin](/source/Ren%C3%A9_de_Girardin). ## Works - Pindemonte, Ippolito (1819). [*Sermoni d'Ippolito Pindemonte*](https://books.google.com/books?id=1BQuAAAAYAAJ). Modena: Società Tipografica. ## Notes 1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStebbing1832410_1-0)** [Stebbing 1832](#CITEREFStebbing1832), p. 410. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStebbing1832397_2-0)** [Stebbing 1832](#CITEREFStebbing1832), p. 397. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStebbing1832403_3-0)** [Stebbing 1832](#CITEREFStebbing1832), p. 403. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Pindemonte, Ippolito (1829). [*L'Odissea di Omero Tradotta da Ippolito Pindemonte con Aggiunta della Batracomiomachia e di Alcuni Inni Tradotti da Altri Autori*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvZJAAAAcAAJ&q=Ippolito+Pindemonte) (in Italian). Vol. II. Milan: Nicolò Bettoni. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [1040674154](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1040674154). ## Bibliography - [Stebbing, Henry](/source/Henry_Stebbing_(editor)) (1832). ["Ippolito Pindemonte"](https://books.google.com/books?id=kOg9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA395). *Lives of the Italian poets*. Vol. 3. London: E. Bull. pp. 395–410. ## See also - [Vicariate of Valpolicella](/source/Vicariate_of_Valpolicella) ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Ippolito Pindemonte](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ippolito_Pindemonte). - Viola, Corrado (2015). ["PINDEMONTE, Ippolito"](https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ippolito-pindemonte_(Dizionario-Biografico)). *[Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani](/source/Dizionario_Biografico_degli_Italiani)* (in Italian). Vol. 83: Piacentini–Pio V. Rome: [Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana](/source/Treccani). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-88-12-00032-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-88-12-00032-6). - Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). ["Ippolito Pindemonte"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Ippolito_Pindemonte). *[Catholic Encyclopedia](/source/Catholic_Encyclopedia)*. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 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