Angelo Grillo
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Angelo Grillo
(c. 1560–1629). A member of an important Genoese family, he became a Benedictine at an early age, moving from monastery to monastery across Italy, and rising to be abbot of several, including S. Paolo-fuori-le-Mura in Rome, where he was one of the original members of the Accademia degli Umoristi . Monastic rules did not prevent him from taking full part in the literary life of the day. His extensive religious verse hovers between Petrarchism and concettismo , with substantial debts to Torquato Tasso . His Lettere (1612), containing correspondence with most of the major writers of the day, give a detailed picture of contemporary literary life. He may also have been the author of erotic verse published under the alias Livio Celano .
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Angelo Grillo
Livio Celiano was the pen name of Don Angelo Grillo O.S.B. (1557–1629) an Italian early baroque poet whose madrigal texts were set by Monteverdi, Filippo Bonaffino, Orazio Vecchi, Luca Marenzio, Salamone Rossi and others.[1]
The close relationship between Grillo and Monteverdi appears in their correspondence, which began about 1610 and continued until the poet's death in 1629.[2]
References
- ^ recmusic.org
- ^ Denis Stevens Monteverdi in Venice p56 2001
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