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Italian Benedictine monk and scholar
DomAgostino LampugnaniOSB
Titleabbot
Personal life
BornGiovan Battista Lampugnani
c. 1586
Milan, Duchy of Milan
Died(1657-01-29)29 January 1657
Milan, Duchy of Milan
NationalityItalian
Parent
  • Pietro Antonio Lampugnani (father)
Other namesGiovan Battista Mognalpina
Occupation
  • Benedictine monk
  • Intellectual
  • Writer
Religious life
ReligionRoman Catholicism
OrderBenedictines
Ordination1599

Agostino Lampugnani OSB (c. 1586 – 29 January 1657) was an Italian Benedictine monk and Baroque writer.

Biography

Giovan Battista Lampugnani was born in Milan around 1586 into a prominent noble family. He joined the Benedictine Order in 1599, taking the name of Agostino and entering the Milanese monastery of San Simpliciano. An accomplished Latinist and scholar, in the early 1630s he became a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti of Venice. He befriended Angelico Aprosio, with whom he conducted a regular correspondence which would last until the end of his life. Lampugnani was prior of Santo Spirito in Pavia until 1640. He subsequently became prior of San Procolo in Bologna, where he lived for some years. He became a member of the Accademia degli Indomiti and befriended several Bolognese writers and artists, including Andrea Barbazza and Giovan Francesco Neri. Lampugnani distinguished himself by his academic lectures, which were later published in Milan under the title Diporti academici. In 1642 he published in Venice, under the pseudonym of Giovan Battista Mognalpina, the chivalric romance Il Celidoro, one of the most successful Italian novels of the 17th century. In the late 1640s Lampugnani moved definitively to Milan. In his later years, he tried to have all his books published in a single edition, but died in 1657 before the project could be realized.

Works

Lampugnani was an erudite and prolific author. He is best known for his part in the polemics over Giambattista Marino's Adone; his Antiocchiale (Anti-spyglass, 1629) argued against Tommaso Stigliani in favour of Marino. The work was never published probably due to the intervention of the Inquisition. Lampugnani sent the manuscript to Aprosio, who included it in his collection as part of the library that he established in his native Ventimiglia. Lampugnani wrote also a detailed account of the plague that struck Milan around 1630, a key source for Manzoni's description of the plague in his novel The Betrothed. Lampugnani's lively satire La Carrozza da nolo (The Rented Carriage, 1648) marks the entrance of the word moda (fashion) into the Italian lexicon.

List of works

Notes

  1. Spada 1977, p. 58.
  2. ^ Cirilli 2004.
  3. Spada 1977, p. 61.
  4. Cazzamini Mussi, Francesco (1947). Milano durante la dominazione spagnola, 1525–1706. Milan: Ceschina. p. 831.
  5. Paulicelli 2016, p. 209.
  6. Gaetana Marrone; Paolo Puppa (2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Routledge. p. 694. ISBN 978-1-135-45530-9. Retrieved 18 July 2023. The term moda (fashion), in fact, first appears in the Italian lexicon with the publication of Agostino Lampugnani's La carrozza da nolo (The Rented Carriage, 1648).
  7. Catricalà, Maria (2011). "Moda, linguaggio della". Enciclopedia dell'Italiano (in Italian). Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.

Bibliography

  • «Agostino Lampugnani Milanese». 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. 10–13 (on-line).
  • Picinelli, Filippo (1670). Ateneo dei letterati milanesi. Milan: Vigone. pp. 3–4.
  • Armellini, Mariano (1731). Bibliotheca Benedictino Casinensis, sive scriptorum Casinensis Congregationis alias Sanctae Iustinae Patavinae, qui in ea ad haec usque tempora floruerunt, operum ac gestorum notitiae. Assisi: Campitelli. pp. 62–65.
  • Spada, Gabriella (1977). "Notizie sulla vita e sulle opere di Agostino Lampugnani (1586? - 1666?)". Manzoni e Il Seicento Lombardo. Milan: Vita e Pensiero: 54–72.
  • Cirilli, Fiammetta (2004). "LAMPUGNANI, Agostino". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 63: Labroca–Laterza (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
  • Paulicelli, Eugenia (2016). "La Moda and its Technologies: Agostino Lampugnani's La Carrozza da nolo, ovvero del vestire e usanze alla moda (The rented carriage or of clothing and fashionable habits, 1648–1650)". Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy. Routledge: 205–224. ISBN 9781134787036.
  • Ceriotti, Luca (2016). "Libro in stampa, casa in piazza. Aprosio, Lampugnani e la fatica dell'apparire". In Clizia Carminati; Paolo Procaccioli; Corrado Viola; Emilio Russo (eds.). Archilet. Per uno studio delle corrispondenze letterarie di età moderna, atti del seminario internazionale (Bergamo, 11-12 dicembre 2014). Verona: QuiEdit. pp. 427–459. ISBN 978-88-6464-370-0.
  • Bongrani, Paolo (2019). "Testimonianze dialettali in un 'Diporto academico' di Agostino Lampugnani (1653)". In Stefania Baragetti; Rosa Necchi; Anna Maria Salvadè (eds.). Geografie e storie letterarie. Studi per William Spaggiari. Milan: LED. pp. 77–82. ISBN 978-88-7916-894-6.
  • Nigro, Paola (2020). "La parola moda tra Rinascimento e Barocco: la camicia e la gorgiera nelle opere di Cesare Vecellio e di Agostino Lampugnani". In Elena Pîrvu (ed.). Lingua e letteratura italiana nel presente e nella storia: atti del X Convegno internazionale di italianistica dell'Università di Craiova, 14-15 settembre 2018. Florence: Franco Cesati editore. pp. 463–472. ISBN 978-88-7667-859-2.
  • Bongrani, Paolo (2020). "Agostino Lampugnani grammatico e il confronto col fiorentino: tra lingua e dialetti". Studi di grammatica italiana. XXXVIII: 217–245.
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