Ippolito Pindemonte
Ippolito Pindemonte (November 13, 1753 – November 18, 1828) was an Italian poet. He was an exponent of Italian neoclassicism and pre-romanticism, with poems of the pastoral genre and related to graveyard poets style.
Ippolito Pindemonte

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- Name
- Ippolito Pindemonte
- Born
- 13 November 1753
- Birthplace
- Verona, Republic of Venice
- Died
- 18 November 1828
- Place of death
- Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
- Occupation
- Poet
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Fields
- poetry · drama · literature · translations from Greek
- Known for
- I Sepolcri
- Languages
- Italian · Ancient Greek
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Ippolito Pindemonte (November 13, 1753 – November 18, 1828) was an Italian poet. He was an exponent of Italian neoclassicism and pre-romanticism, with poems of the pastoral genre and related to graveyard poets style.
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• Name — Ippolito Pindemonte • Other Names — Polidete Melpomenio • Born — 13 November 1753 • Birthplace — Verona, Republic of Venice • Died — 18 November 1828 • Place of death — Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia • Occupation — Poet
Biography
Biography
Ippolito Pindemonte was born in Verona on 13 November 1753 into an aristocratic family. His brother Giovanni Pindemonte was a prominent dramatist. He was educated at the Collegio di San Carlo in Modena and became a close friend of the mathematician and translator Giuseppe Torelli (1721–1781) and the scholar Girolamo Pompei. He travelled to Rome in 1780 where he entered the Arcadia as Polidete Melpomenio. He wrote a first tragedy, Ulisse, in 1777, which was followed by others, and by various poems and translations. In 1788–90 he visited Switzerland, France, England, and Germany, drawing on his experiences for a novel, Abaritte (1790). He was deeply affected by the French Revolution, residing in Paris for ten months during 1789. A brief flirtation with revolutionary ideas led to La Francia (1790), but he rejected the results of the reign of Terror and fled to Italy. He withdrew from politics and spent much of the rest of his life in his villa near Verona.
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A Romantic poet, he was principally influenced by his friend Ugo Foscolo and Thomas Gray, and was associated with the Della Cruscans. He devoted much of his life to a translation of the Odyssey, which was published in 1822. During his career he tried various styles of poetry in his efforts to achieve formal perfection, from the narrative of Gibilterra salvata (1782) to the discursive Epistole in versi (1804) and Sermoni (1819). He finds his own pre-Romantic voice best in rustic poetry, publishing a first Saggio di poesie campestri in 1788. Though he abandoned his Cimiteri when he learnt of the imminent publication of Dei Sepolcri (which Foscolo dedicated to him), the unfinished poem was published with Foscolo's in a single volume in 1807. From 1805 to 1819 he worked on his remarkable translation of the Odyssey (1822), which, rather than epic verve, displays the combination of melancholy and classical grace characteristic of pre-Romantic poetry. Pindemonte is also the author of the short poem La melanconia ("Melancholy"), set to music by Vincenzo Bellini in the arietta Malinconia, Ninfa gentile.
Pindemonte and Villa Mosconi Bertani
Pindemonte and Villa Mosconi Bertani
Ippolito Pindemonte has been resident for many years in Villa Mosconi Bertani where he was involved in the design of the romantic park, a typical English garden also inspired by the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the design of René de Girardin.
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Ippolito Pindemonte is recorded as poet, linguist, translator, writer and playwright.
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1753
Ippolito Pindemonte born at Verona.
1819
Arminio tragedia d'Ippolito Pindemonte... S'aggiungono tre discorsi risguardanti il 1.o la recitazione scenica e una riforma del teatro, il 2.o l'Arminio e la poesia tragica, il 3.o due lettere di Voltaire su la Merope del Maffei (1819) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1828
Ippolito Pindemonte died at Verona.
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- English Friends and Influences in the Life of Ippolito Pindemonte, Italian Studies, 1967
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1967
- Un’edizione milanese della traduzione in latino dei 'Sepolcri' di Ippolito Pindemonte, Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria, 2022
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2022
- Un’edizione milanese della traduzione in latino dei «Sepolcri» di Ippolito Pindemonte, Edizioni d'autore nell'epoca della stampa tipografica, 2025
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2025
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English Friends and Influences in the Life of Ippolito Pindemonte, Italian Studies, 1967Crossref registry
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Un’edizione milanese della traduzione in latino dei 'Sepolcri' di Ippolito Pindemonte, Prassi Ecdotiche della Modernità Letteraria, 2022Crossref registry
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Un’edizione milanese della traduzione in latino dei «Sepolcri» di Ippolito Pindemonte, Edizioni d'autore nell'epoca della stampa tipografica, 2025Crossref registry
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He also worked under the name Polidete Melpomenio. His recorded languages were Italian and Ancient Greek. Pindemonte worked in poetry, drama, literature and translations from Greek. He belonged to Academy of Sciences of Turin, Arcadian Academy and Accademia della Crusca.
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