# Pace Pasini

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**Pace Pasini** (17 June 1583 – 1644) was an Italian [marinist](/source/Marinism) poet and novelist. He is best known as the author of the [Baroque](/source/Baroque) novel *L'historia del cavalier perduto* (1644), which may have been a source for [Alessandro Manzoni](/source/Alessandro_Manzoni)'s *[The Betrothed](/source/The_Betrothed)*, and combines chivalric, picaresque, and political themes.[1]

## Biography

Pace Pasini was the son of Pietro, a descendant of a family originally from [Valle Sabbia](/source/Valle_Sabbia), who had moved to [Schio](/source/Schio) and then to Vicenza, where he was ascribed to the Noble Council of the city.[2] In the mid-seventeenth century - around the time of Pace's death - a member of the Pasini family from Vicenza figured among the merchants of silk and thick cloths.[3]

After completing his grammar studies in Vicenza, Pace attended the [University of Padua](/source/University_of_Padua), where he devoted himself to the study of law. He soon neglected his legal studies and took an interest in the [new science](/source/History_of_science) - he corresponded with [Galileo Galilei](/source/Galileo_Galilei) and [Johannes Kepler](/source/Johannes_Kepler) - and above all in [philosophy](/source/Philosophy). He followed the university lessons of [Cesare Cremonini](/source/Cesare_Cremonini_(philosopher)), a follower of [Pietro Pomponazzi](/source/Pietro_Pomponazzi)'s neo-[Aristotelian](/source/Aristotelianism) [rationalism](/source/Rationalism) who questioned the doctrine of the [immortality of the soul](/source/Immortality) and other [Catholic dogmas](/source/Dogma_in_the_Catholic_Church).[3]

Pace was a member of the [Accademia degli Incogniti](/source/Accademia_degli_Incogniti), one of the most active and lively Venetian Academies of the seventeenth century.[3]

Following a dispute, Pace and his brother killed the lawyer Roberto Malo and seriously injured his brother. In March 1624 Pace was sentenced to five years of exile in [Zara](/source/Zadar), later reduced by about half (he was acquitted and released on 28 January 1627).[3]

On 25 July 1630 he was appointed vicar in [Barbarano](/source/Barbarano_Vicentino) and on 8 July 1635 he was appointed vicar in [Orgiano](/source/Orgiano).[3]

Pace Pasini died in Padua in the second half of 1644.

## Works

- *Rime varie, et gli increduli, ouero De' rimedii d'amore dialogo. Dedicate al molto illustre ... Giacomo Godi*. Vicenza: Francesco Grossi. 1612.
- *Campo Martio ouero Le bellezze di Lidia, dedicato al clariss. sig. Giulio da Molino, dell'illustriss. sig. Marco*. Vicenza: presso Francesco Grossi. 1614.
- *Il sogno dell'illustrissimo sig. Pietro Memo. Dedicato all'illustrissimo signor Dominico Molino*. Vicenza: Francesco Grossi. 1623.
- *La Metafora. Il Trattato e le Rime. Trattato de' passaggi dall'vna metafora all'altra, et de gl'innesti dell'istesse nel quale si discorre secondo l'opinione, e l'vso de' migliori, se senza commetter diffetto, si possano vsare da' poeti, et da gli oratori. Dedicato all'illustrissimo, et eccellentiss. sig. Nicola Da Ponte*. Vicenza. 1632.
- [*Rime di Pace Pasini diuise in errori, honori, dolori, verita, & miscugli*](https://books.google.com/books?id=XQ9lAAAAcAAJ). Vicenza: per gli heredi di Francesco Grossi. 1642. Pasini's *Rime*, characterized by a conventional *[conceptismo](/source/Conceptismo)*, have appended to them the *Trattato de’ passaggi dall’una metafora all’altra e degli innesti dell’istesse*, one of the earliest theoretical discussions of Baroque style.[1]
- [*Historia del cavalier perduto*](https://books.google.com/books?id=HAxbQ6woTuIC). Venice: Francesco Valvasense. 1644.[3] In a careful comparative study the critic Giovanni Getto analyzes points of contact between Pasini's *Historia del Cavalier Perduto*, and Manzoni's masterpiece.[4][5] The similarities are striking. There is the story of a kidnapping: the gentlewoman Luciana Lucia's name may well be an echo) is carried off to the castle of the terrible Strappacuori. There is the description of a flight which bears some resemblance to Renzo's. There are several other analogies, both lexical and plot-related. A series of details, Getto correctly calls them, but sufficient to permit him to hazard the hypothesis that here at last is the anonymous manuscript Manzoni so often refers to.[6]

## Notes

1. Slawinski 2002.

1. Giarolli, Giambattista (1955). *Vicenza nella sua toponomastica stradale*. Vicenza: Scuola Tip. Istituto San Gaetano. p. 329.

1. .

1. ["Alessandro Manzoni è al centro delle discussioni nel mondo culturale italiano. Il manoscritto ritrovato e la polemica di Moravia"](http://www.gianniroghi.it/Testi/l'europeo/6019%20%20(1).htm). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130613232829/http://www.gianniroghi.it/Testi/l%27europeo/6019%20%20%281%29.htm) 13 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 27 May 2013.

1. Getto 1960.

1. Povolo 2014, p. 35.

## Bibliography

- «Расе Pasini vicentino». In : *Le glorie de gli Incogniti: o vero, Gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de' signori Incogniti di Venetia*, In Venetia : appresso Francesco Valuasense stampator dell'Accademia, 1647, pp. 368–371 ([on-line](https://books.google.com/books?id=FXTNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA368)).
- Getto, Giovanni (1960). "Echi di un romanzo barocco nei "Promessi sposi"". *Lettere Italiane*. **XII**: 141–167.
- Mantese, Giovanni (1975). "Il Manzoni e Vicenza. Il "Cavalier Perduto" del vicentino Pace Pasini e i "Promessi sposi"". *Manzoni, Venezia e Il Veneto*
- Mantese, Giovanni (1976). *Il Manzoni a Vicenza. Il Cavalier perduto del vicentino Pace Pasini e i Promessi Sposi*. Florence: [Leo S. Olschki Editore](/source/Leo_S._Olschki_Editore)
- Mazza, Antonia (1960). "Nota manzoniana". *Aevum*. **34** (5/6): 573–575. [JSTOR 20859363](https://www.jstor.org/stable/20859363)
- Mura Porcu, Anna (2005). "Note sulla lingua dell'"Historia del Cavalier Perduto"". *Sentir e Meditar. Omaggio a Elena Sala di Felice*
- Povolo, Claudio (2014). *The Novelist and the Archivist. Fiction and History in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed*. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Santoro, Marco (1981). "L'Historia del Cavalier Perduto di Pace Pasini". *La più stupenda e gloriosa macchina". Il romanzo italiano del sec. XVII*
- Slawinski, M. (2002). ["Pasini, Pace"](https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198183327.001.0001/acref-9780198183327-e-2375). *The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature*. [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press). Retrieved 21 May 2023.

## External links

- ["Pasini, Pace"](https://www.sapere.it/enciclopedia/Pasini%2C+Pace.html). *Sapere.it*. [De Agostini](/source/De_Agostini). Retrieved 21 May 2023.

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