27 Facts About Vittorio Alfieri

1.

Vittorio Alfieri's father died when he was very young, and he was brought up by his mother, who married a second time, until, at the age of ten, he was placed in the academy of Turin.

2.

At thirteen, Vittorio Alfieri began the study of civil and canon law, but this only made him more interested in literature, particularly French romances.

3.

Vittorio Alfieri began to attend a riding-school, where he acquired an enthusiasm for horses and equestrian exercise that continued for the rest of his life.

4.

Vittorio Alfieri recommenced his travels; and his only gratification, in the absence of freedom among the continental states, came from contemplating the wild and sterile regions of the north of Sweden, where gloomy forests, lakes and precipices encouraged his sublime and melancholy ideas.

5.

In search of an ideal world, Vittorio Alfieri passed quickly through various countries.

6.

The affair became a widely publicised scandal and ended in a divorce that ruined Lady Ligonier and forced Vittorio Alfieri to leave the country.

7.

Vittorio Alfieri then visited Spain and Portugal, where he became acquainted with the Abbe Caluso, who remained through life the most attached and estimable friend he ever possessed.

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8.

From this moment Vittorio Alfieri was seized with an insatiable thirst for theatrical fame, to which he devoted the remainder of his life.

9.

Vittorio Alfieri therefore ceded his whole property to his sister, the countess Cumiana, keeping for himself an annuity that was about half his original income.

10.

Vittorio Alfieri followed her to Rome, where he completed fourteen tragedies, four of which were published at Siena.

11.

Vittorio Alfieri went to England solely for the purpose of purchasing a number of these animals, which he took back to Italy.

12.

Vittorio Alfieri recrossed the Alps with the countess, and finally settled at Florence.

13.

Vittorio Alfieri supported the American Revolution and wrote a collection of odes published as L'America libera and dedicated a play about the ancient Romans to George Washington.

14.

Vittorio Alfieri's ideas continued to influence Italian liberals and republicans such as Piero Gobetti throughout the Risorgimento and well into the twentieth century.

15.

Vittorio Alfieri spent the concluding years of his life studying Greek literature and perfecting a series of comedies.

16.

Vittorio Alfieri eschewed his physicians prescriptions in favor of his own remedies, which made the condition worse.

17.

Vittorio Alfieri is buried in the Church of Santa Croce, Florence next to Machiavelli.

18.

Vittorio Alfieri was evidently of an irritable, impetuous, and almost ungovernable temper.

19.

Vittorio Alfieri infuses each play with one great action and one ruling passion, taking care to remove as much as possible every other event or feeling.

20.

Vittorio Alfieri's country hailed him as her sole tragic poet, and his successors in the same path of literature have regarded his bold, austere and rapid manner as the genuine model of tragic composition.

21.

Besides his tragedies, Vittorio Alfieri published during his life many sonnets; five odes on American independence; one tramelogedia, ; and the poem of Etruria, based on the assassination of Alexander, duke of Florence.

22.

The posthumous works of Vittorio Alfieri consist of satires, six political comedies, and the Memoirs of his Life, work that will always be read with interest in spite of the cold and languid gravity he applies to the most interesting adventures and strongest passions of his agitated life.

23.

Vittorio Alfieri caught a "chill on his stomach" while out driving on 3 October 1803.

24.

Vittorio Alfieri was buried in the church of Santa Croce, Florence.

25.

The name of Vittorio Alfieri was never registered in the official publications of the Piedmont Freemasonry.

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26.

Many of Vittorio Alfieri's friends were Freemasons, as it is attested by the documents conserved in the center of studies located in the town of Asti.

27.

The first edition of the Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy was published in 1763 and sent to the following notable Freemasons: the von Kaunitz brothers of Turin, Giovanni Pindemonte e Gerolamo Zulian in Venice, Annibale Beccaria, Luigi Visconte Arese e Gioacchino Pallavicini in Milan, Carlo Gastone Rezzonico in Parma, Saveur Grimaldi in Genoa, Ludovico Savioli in Bologna, Kiliano Caraccioli which was Venerable Master in Naples, Giuseppe Guasco in Rome.