Arcadia, Academy of

Arcadia, Academy of

▪ Italian literary academy
Italian  Accademia Dell'arcadia,  

      Italian literary academy founded in Rome in 1690 to combat Marinism, the dominant Italian poetic style of the 17th century. The Arcadians sought a more natural, simple poetic style based on the classics and particularly on Greek and Roman pastoral poetry.

      The Academy of Arcadia was inspired by Queen Christina of Sweden, who, having given up her throne, gathered a literary circle in Rome. After Christina's death in 1689, her friends founded the academy to give their meetings permanence and “to exterminate bad taste, and to see to it that it shall not rise again.” They named the academy for Arcadia, a pastoral region of ancient Greece, and assumed Greek names themselves.

      Among the founding members of the Academy of Arcadia were the classicist and critic Gian Vincenzo Gravina, Giovan Mario Crescimbeni, Giovan Battista Zappi, Alessandro Guidi, and Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni. Although most Arcadian poetry was rather pale and imitative, the academy had two outstanding writers in the 17th and 18th centuries: Paolo Rolli, who was particularly skilled in canzonetti, and Pietro Metastasio (Metastasio, Pietro), one of the greatest lyricists and librettists in Italian literature. Gabriello Chiabrera (Chiabrera, Gabriello), who experimented with metrical forms, was also an Arcadian, as were Gabriele Rossetti (Rossetti, Dante Gabriel) (the father of the English poets Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti) and Pope Leo XIII, an accomplished poet who wrote a poem for the academy's 200th anniversary.

      The Academy of Arcadia was an important influence in achieving a simplification of Italian poetry. It also inspired the establishment in Italy of many Arcadian colonies that sought a return to a pastoral existence rather than having a specifically literary purpose. The 18th-century reformer of Italian comedy, Carlo Goldoni (Goldoni, Carlo), was a member of one such colony at Pisa before he began his career.

      In 1925 the academy was made an academic and historical institute and was renamed the Italian Literary Academy (Accademia Letteraria Italiana).

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