1769 FIRST INHABITANTS of ITALY by STANISLAO BARDETTI antique VELLUM BOUND

DE' PRIMI ABITATORI DELL' ITALIA

Opera Postuma

(The first inhabitants of Italy)

del Padre STANISLAO BARDETTI

2 parts in one volume

Modena; 1769

Size 8 1/2 by 11 3/4 inches

Text in Italian

Original vellum binding


Very good condition, minor wear
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BARDETTI, Stanislaus

He was born on 13 November 1688 in Castell'Arquato (Piacenza) to Cristoforo and Margherita Maraschi; in 1704 he entered the Society of Jesus as a novice in Novellara di Modena. After completing his studies and receiving orders, he was sent to teach rhetoric in Verona, where he became familiar with S. Maffei, drawing from him the stimulus to study antiquities. He was then sent to the S. Pietre college in Piacenza as a teacher of humanities for the novices: there, around 1725, he began to collect materials for a History of the Piacenza literati. Quarrels and rivalries among ecclesiastics forced him to leave Piacenza (1732), so he ended up settling in Modena (1735) where he was able to concentrate more peacefully on his studies which ended up being exclusively devoted to Italian antiquities. In 1748 he was appointed theologian to the Duke of Modena and it is certain that he exercised notable influence on Francesco III d'Este: the contrasting opinions attributed to Muratori certainly referred to this influence: according to "a professor from Modena" (Novelle letterarie, 1771, Col. 28), Muratori is said to have said of B. that "the fathers of Jesus had spoiled in him a good man of letters to make a bad politician"; according to "a man of letters from Piacenza" (ibid., col. 149), he is said to have said that B. "would be capable of governing not so much a small state, as kingdoms and monarchies".

From 1764 he was director of the Jesuit college in Modena, and he died in this city on 6 March 1767.

The studies on the ancient Italics, which B. had devoted many years to, saw the light, thanks to the work of eager editors, only after his death: De , primi abitatori dell'Italia , Modena 1769; Della lingua de' primi abitatori dell'Italia , ibid. 1772. In contrast to Maffei and A.S. Mazzocchi, who considered the accurate examination of the surviving testimonies of their language to be preliminary to any historical investigation into the origins of ancient peoples, B. believed that the historical investigation should precede the linguistic one. And, according to B., from the historical investigation into the primitive inhabitants of Italy, whom he usually called "Circumpadani", it resulted that the most ancient among them were the Ligurians and the Umbrians (of Celtic origin) and the Taurisci (of Germanic origin); The Siculi and the Aborigines were then said to be of Ligurian origin , while the Umbrians of the historical age were said to have descended from the Isumbri or Isombri settled near the Lario; finally, the Aurunci were also considered to be of Umbrian origin.
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