Liugi Faicchi - Scarperia, Tuscany, Italy
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Luigi Fiacchi ( Scarperia 1754-Florence 1825), was an Italian poet, philologist, presbyter and fabulist. The plaque (plazza side) gives a history of Liugi's life. The sign (road side) explains that Liugi lived here.
Waymark Code: WM16M0K
Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 08/24/2022
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"Belonging to a family of humble origins, he initially studied with a paternal uncle curate of Rupecanina; in 1768 he was admitted to the Eugenian College of Florence where he did literary and philosophical studies. Ordained a priest in 1777 , thanks to the intercession of Archbishop Incontri , he was sent for a year to the University of Bologna . Returning to Florence he immediately had a post as a teacher of philosophy and mathematics at the Eugenian college where he remained until October 1786 when the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo appointed him a teacher of the same subjects in the Leopoldine schools.
He soon came into contact with the members of the Accademia della Crusca and was appointed partner in 1812 . The same year he published with Giuseppe Sarchiani and Giovanni Lessi a list of words to be included in the Vocabulary. In the Crusca he held the positions of censor (in 1818 and 1821 ), librarian (in 1824 ) and member of the deputation for language texts (from 1819 onwards) [1] . The search for ancient books, of which he collected, led him to study in philology to ascertain the safest lessons, and he published several (for example, on Boccaccio, Cavalca , Rinuccini , Lorenzo the Magnificent , etc.).
Fiacchi is remembered above all as a poet and above all as an author of fables. He wrote sacred poems, rustic poems, pastoral sonnets and fables. Three of the Poems have as their theme the Incarnation of Jesus Christ . The Pastoral Sonnets , published on several occasions in Florence starting in 1789 and later published together with the Fables , were composed for the academies to which Fiacchi belonged, are mainly affected by Arcadian tendencies . His Fablesrhyming are a total of one hundred: fifty-four were published in 1795, another thirty-two were published in the appendix in the 1802 edition and the remaining fourteen were added in the 1807 edition. Recently Davide Puccini edited an edition in critical text and with systematic annotation . Mostly the fairy tales are original; in any case, the ideas are reworked with a personal style linked to the country life of Mugello , both in the setting and in the language which, however, also has a learned patina"
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