Agostino Mascardi
Italian rhetorician, historian and poet (1590–1640) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agostino Mascardi (2 September 1590 – 1640) was an Italian rhetorician, historian and poet.
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Born | 2 September 1590 Sarzana, Republic of Genoa (now Province of La Spezia, Liguria, Italy) |
Died | 1640 (aged 49–50) Sarzana, Republic of Genoa (now Province of La Spezia, Liguria, Italy) |
Nationality | Italian |
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Occupation | Historian, rhetorician, poet |
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Works | Dell'arte historica (1636) Siluarum libri IV (1622) |
Movement | Baroque |
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Expelled from the Jesuit Order by his superiors, Mascardi pursued a successful career as a secretary for various important figures, and became a renowned writer and professor of rhetoric at the Sapienza University of Rome. He was a member of several learned societies and wrote a seminal treatise, "Dell'arte historica" (1636) advocating history as a powerful instrument of ethical and religious persuasion and largely focusing on the interplay between truth and believability.