Bartolomeo Tortoletti

Bartolomeo Tortoletti (1560 – 1647) was an Italian poet and writer.

Life[]

He was born in Verona in 1560 and spent most of his life in Rome. The names of his parents are not known.

It is likely that he obtained his doctorate in theology before moving permanently to Rome, where he initially went several times for occasional reasons. In Rome he became a member of the Accademia degli Umoristi.

At least until 1641 Tortoletti exercised the profession of secretary to Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia, who died that year. His links with the House of Savoy are also testified by the epitaph in memory of Emanuele Filiberto, who died on 4 August 1624 (In obitu serenissimi principis Philiberti de Sabaudia, Romae 1624).

Under Urban VIII Tortoletti lived the most intense season of his literary activity. Member of the circle of Barberini’s proteges, he enjoyed Papal favour and became a close friend of some of the major intellectual personalities of the time, such as Gabriel Naudè and Daniël Heinsius.

He died in Rome in 1648.

Tortoletti's main works are: Ossuniana conjuratio qua Petrus Ossunae regnum neapolitanum sibi desponderat (Venice, 1623 quarto); the epic poem Giuditta vittoriosa (Rome 1628, octavo); five canto poem Judith vindex et vindicata (Rome 1628, quarto); and a series of erudite debates with collected as Accademia Pompeiana, seu defensio magni Pompeii in administratione belli civilis (Rome, 1639, octavo).^[1]

He died in Rome.

Editions[]

• Bartolomeo Tortoletti (2017). Agrippina la maggiore. Biblioteca barocca. Argo. ISBN 978-88-8234-217-3.

References[]

External links[]

• Piantoni, Luca (2019). "TORTOLETTI, Bartolomeo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 96: Toja–Trivelli (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.