Angelico Aprosio
Italian writer
Angelico Aprosio (born Ludovico Aprosio, 29 October 1607 – 23 February 1681) was an Italian Augustine monk, scholar, and bibliophile.
Biography
Aprosio was born into a wealthy family in Ventimiglia. As a young man he felt called to the religious life and persevered in this early vocation in spite of the desire of his parents to have their only son study law or medicine. He entered the Augustinian order on March 19, 1623, while still but 15 years of age, changing his baptismal name of Ludovico to Angelico, probably from that of an uncle who had been a famous preacher in the Order. He spent the year of his novitiate and two years after his profession in the convent of his Order at Genoa, after which time he sought permission from his superiors to go to Tuscany, and was sent to the Convent of Sant'Agostino in Siena, where he remained six years.
In 1639 he was appointed professor of belles-lettres, at the convent of St. Stephen in Venice, and subsequently Vicar general of the Congregation of Santa Maria della Consolazione in Genoa. He acquired a high reputation by his numerous works on literary criticism and other subjects, among which are a moral essay against the luxury and extravagance of women, entitled "The Shield of Rinaldo," ("Lo Scudo di Rinaldo," 1642,) and "La Grillaia" (1673), a miscellany of literary and antiquarian researches. In his critical writings he defended Giambattista Marino against Tommaso Stigliani, but he also opposed Arcangela Tarabotti in the debate over the oppression of women.
Today Aprosio is best remembered for his "La Biblioteca Aprosiana," (1673) one of the earliest and most comprehensive select bibliographies of Italian literature.
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