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Giovanni Andrea dell' Anguillara
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Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara (1517 – 1570) was an Italian poet. His verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (the complete version was published in 1561) was often reprinted and has been highly praised by italian critics; a partial translation of Virgil's Aeneid enjoyed less success. Anguillara also wrote the comedy Anfitrione, and the tragedy Edippo, based on Seneca's Oedipus and on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.
Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara was born in Sutri, in the Papal States, about the year 1517, into an impoverished branch of the provincial nobility. He was educated in Rome, where he found himself drawn away from his studies in law to the literary culture surrounding the Accademia dello Sdegno and the bookshops of Antonio Blado and Antonio Martínez (called "Il Salamanca"). Poverty plagued these early years, even though Anguillara won intermittent support from two powerful cardinals, Alessandro Farnese and Cristoforo Madruzzo. With the failure of his comedy, the Anfitrione, a free adaptation of Plautus' Amphitryon (1548), Anguillara abandoned Rome in search of success elsewhere.
He went first to Parma, then to Venice, then to Paris, where he worked on his translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which is his most esteemed work. The first three books of the translation were published at Paris, and dedicated to Henry II. Anguillara's hopes for French royal patronage evaporated with the death of Henry II, and he (probably) completed his Metamorphoses at Lyon in 1560 with the support of Matteo Balbani of Lucca. He then returned to Italy and sought patronage from Cosimo I de' Medici in Florence, but these efforts also failed and he returned to Venice, where his translation of Ovid was published in 1561. In 1562 he was called upon by the Olympic Academy of Verona to write the preface for the first Italian performance of Gian Giorgio Trissino’s Sofonisba. He then turned his hand to Virgil, completing his translation of the first book of the Aeneid a few years later.
At length he returned to Rome, but, as it would seem, not till towards the close of his life.
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