Luigi Tansillo

Luigi Tansillo (1510 – 1 de diciembre de 1568) fue un poeta italiano del Renacimiento tardío . Tansillo merece un lugar especial en la historia de la poesía italiana , ya que constituye el vínculo entre la lírica clásica del Cinquecento y la lírica barroca del Seicento . ^{[ 1 ]} 

Luigi Tansillo nació en Venosa en 1510, en una familia de la pequeña nobleza , y pasó los primeros años de su vida en Venosa y Nola . ^{[ 2 ]} Alrededor del año 1532 Tansillo se trasladó a Nápoles, donde entabló amistad con los notables poetas españoles Garcilaso de la Vega y Juan Boscán . ^{[ 2 ]} En 1535 entró al servicio del virrey español de Nápoles , Pedro Álvarez de Toledo . Desde ese momento hasta 1553, Tansillo acompañó a don Pedro y a su hijo don García (capitán de la flota napolitana desde 1535) en numerosas misiones militares y políticas en el Mediterráneo . ^{[ 3 ]} En 1551 el poeta se casó con Luisa Puccio y publicó su primera colección de poemas, los Sonetti per la presa d'Africa . En 1561 fue nombrado gobernador de Gaeta , cargo que mantuvo hasta su muerte. ^{[ 4 ]} Tansillo estuvo en contacto con Annibale Caro y Benedetto Varchi , y se convirtió en miembro de la Accademia degli Umidi florentina en 1544. ^{[ 2 ]} Murió en Teano el 1 de diciembre de 1568, a los 58 años. ^{[ 2 ]}

Tansillo began his literary career with the publication of the pastoral drama I due pellegrini (‘The two pilgrims’) in 1527. The "rustic" poem in ottava rimaIl vendemmiatore (‘The Grape Gatherer’, 1532) combines a celebration of carnal love and enjoyment of life with elegiac evocations of the golden age and fleeting youth. The work was considered licentious enough to be placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by Pope Paul IV.^[4]Stanze a Bernardino Martirano (‘Stanzas for Bernardino Martirano’, 1540) recounts the vicissitudes of the sea journey that Tansillo had taken with Toledo's son, don García. The mythological poem Clorida (1547) uses the story of a nymph who inhabits the country villa of Tansillo's protector as a pretext for descriptions of the natural setting and praise of don García's military prowes. Other works of interest inclucde the didactic poemLa balia (‘The nurse’, 1552) and Il podere (‘The farm’, 1560), an idyll celebrating serene country life inspired by Columella. Tansillo's fame depends principally on the religious epicLe lagrime di San Pietro (‘The tears of Saint Peter’, 1585), a poem in fifteen cantos of ottava rima imbued with Counter-Reformation moral and religious fervour which is now best known as the model for Malherbe's Les Larmes de saint Pierre (1587).

Tansillo is considered the most important Southern Italian Petrarchist, and was admired by Torquato Tasso and Giambattista Marino, no doubt for his anticipations of the Baroque manner. His original reelaboration of Petrarchan and classical models expressed itself most significantly through his intensely sensual descriptions of natural landscapes, the musicality of his verse, and his virtuosic shows of technical ability, often through the use of unusual conceits. Tansillo's lyrics were anthologized in a famous volume published by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari in 1552 and carried throughout Europe by foreigners who had visited Italy. Jacquet de Berchem set some of his texts, as did Giovanni Tommaso Benedictis da Pascarola. François de Malherbe’s Larmes de Saint Pierre, imitated from Tansillo, appeared in 1587, and in 1594 Orlando di Lasso also set Le lagrime di San Pietro. William Roscoe’s translation of Tansillo's Nurse appeared in 1798, and went through several editions.

• I due pellegrini (1530)
• Il vendemmiatore (1532–1534)
• Stanze a Bernardino Martirano (1540)
• Clorida (1547)
• La Balia (1552)
• Il podere (1560)
• Le lagrime di San Pietro (1585)
• Liriche
• Il Canzoniere. Tansillo's Canzoniere, the result of a lifetime's work, was only published in 1711.^[5]

• Media related to Luigi Tansillo at Wikimedia Commons
• Ambrosoli, Francesco (1863). Manuale della Letteratura Italiana. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Florence: G. Barbèra Editore.
• Cannata, Nadia (2002). "Tansillo, Luigi". In Peter Hainsworth; David Robey (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
• Milburn, Erika (2003). Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-century Naples. Leeds: Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association. ISBN 1-902653-97-1.
• Toscano, Tobia R. (2019). "Tansillo, Luigi". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 94: Stampa–Tarantelli. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-88-12-00032-6.
• "Tansillo, Luigi (Enciclopedia on line" (in Italian).