Claudio Achillini, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Claudio Achillini

Italian poet and jurist

Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1574

Place of Birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1640

Profession: writer, poet, jurist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Claudio Achillini

  • Claudio Achillini (Latin Claudius Achillinus; 18 September 1574 – 1 October 1640) was an Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, and jurist. Born in Bologna, he was grandson to Giovanni Filoteo Achillini and grand-nephew to Alessandro Achillini.
  • He was professor of jurisprudence for several years at his native Bologna, Parma, and Ferrara, with the highest reputation.
  • So much admiration did his learning excite, that inscriptions to his honor were placed in the schools in his lifetime.
  • He was a member of a number of learned and literary societies, including the Accademia dei Lincei.Achillini went to Rome, where he obtained great promises of preferment from popes and cardinals, but they proved only promises.
  • Odoardo Farnese, duke of Parma, engaged him however on very liberal terms, to occupy the chair of law in his university.
  • Achillini was a particular friend of Giambattista Marino, whose style in poetry he imitated, adopting the same strain of turgid metaphors, absurd thoughts, and points, which obtained the applause of that age.
  • A canzone, which he addressed to Louis XIII on the birth of the dauphin, is said to have been rewarded by Cardinal Richelieu with a gold chain or collar worth 1000 crowns; this reward was not given, as some have asserted, for the famous sonnet beginning, "Sudate o fuochi, a preparar metalli;" and which was parodied by Crudeli in one beginning, "Sudate o forni, a preparar pagnotte," (Sweat, O ye ovens! in preparing cakes!)Achillini's poems were published at Bologna in 1632.
  • He also printed a volume of Latin letters.

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