Clotilde Tambroni
| Clotilde Tambroni | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
June 29, 1758 Bologna |
| Died |
June 2, 1817 (aged 58) Bologna |
| Occupation | Classicist |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Sub discipline | Philology, Linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Bologna |
Clotilde Tambroni (29 June 1758 – 2 June 1817), was an Italian philologist, linguist and poet. She was a professor in the Greek language at the University of Bologna in 1793–1798, and a professor in Greek and literature in 1800–1808.[1] She succeeded in achieving institutional recognition by a university long before women in many parts of the world could even attend university.[2] As well as her native Italian, she was also fluent in French, English and Spanish.[3]
Career
In 1790, Clothilde Tambroni was invited into the Accademia degli Inestricati, and then in 1792 also admitted to the Accademia degli Arcadi, under the pseudonym of Doriclea Sicionia.[1][3] Despite having had no opportunity to obtain an academic degree, on 23 November 1793 she was assigned the Chair of Greek Language.[3][4]
In 1798, after having lost her position for refusing to swear her loyalty to the new Cisalpine government, she worked in Spain as a researcher alongside her father, Emanuele Aponte, and was accepted into the l’Accademia Reale di Madrid.[3]
Notwithstanding her political ideas, in September 1799 she was restored to the Accademia degli Inestricati as Chair of Greek Language and Literature, and in 1804 was granted a large pay rise.[3]
Adamo Tadolini sculpted her marble bust, supervised by Canova who was a friend of the Tambroni family.[5]
Major works
- Per le faustissime nozze del nobil uomo il signor conte Niccolo Fava Ghisilieri colla nobil donna la signora Gaetana Marescotti Berselli. Versi, co' tipi Bodoniani, Parma 1792.
- Pel felice parto della nobil donna signora contessa Susanna Jenisson Walworth Spencer. Ode greco-italiana, Stamp. S. Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologna 1792.
- Per la ricuperata salute dell'em.mo e rev.mo signor cardinale d. Andrea Gioannetti degnissimo arcivescovo di Bologna. Ode pindarica, stamp. S. Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologna 1793.
- Al nobile ed eccelso signor conte senatore Ferdinando Marescalchi Fava pel quinto solenne suo ingresso al gonfalonierato di giustizia della città e popolo di Bologna. Ode saffica greca, co' tipi Bodoniani, Parma 1794.
- In onore del celebre tipografo Giambattista Bodoni. Elegia greca, Tip. Reale Bodoni, Parma 1795.
- In lode del feld-maresciallo conte di Clairfait. Ode, Stamp. S. Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologna 1796.
Published volumes of her letters
- Lettere inedite di Clotilde Tambroni, a cura di M.F. Sacchi, Tip. Agnelli, Milano 1804.
- Alcune lettere della celebre grecista Clotilde Tambroni, a cura di F. Raffaello, Tip. Corradetti, San Severino Marche 1870.
- Lettere di quattro gentildonne bolognesi, a cura di S. Battistini e C. Ricci, Tip. Monti, Bologna 1883.
Sources
- 1 2 G. Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani, Pirola, Milano 1848, pp 332
- ↑ Wiles, R (2017). Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 17–18. ISBN 0198725205.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Tambroni Clotilde - Storia e memoria di bologna". Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- ↑ "Donne famose di Bologna". Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- ↑ G. Tambroni, Intorno la vita di Antonio Canova, Salviucci, Roma 1823.