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| A grotesque portrait of Pietro Napoli Signorelli, tempera on paper, Naples, Italy, late XVIII century. | Description: Pietro Napoli Signorelli (Naples 1731 - 1815), essayist, historian and writer, was endowed with a wide culture. After a long period spent in Madrid (1765-83), he returned to Naples, where he joined, in 1799, the Neapolitan Republic, as member of the Legislative Committee. The Republic was short-lived: Ferdinand IV, returned to the throne the same year, at the end of the Summer. He unleashed repression against the Republicans and Signorelli had no choice but to abandon his homeland and repair in the Cisalpine Republic. In Milan he had the chair of poetry in the public school of Brera. He was, as well, the director of the Academy of patriotic declamation Theatre. In 1804 he moved to Bologna, where he start teaching history and diplomacy. In 1806 he returned to Naples, where he became the secretary of the Pontaniana Academy.
He wrote, among other works, a number of comedies, 'A critical history of ancient and modern theatre' (1776) and 'The vicissitudes of the culture of the Reign of the Two Sicilies' (1810-11).
Pietro Napoli Signorelli made a remarkable contribution to the Spanish neoclassical theatre; he had correspondence with the Spanish dramatist Leandro Fernández de Moratín. Signorelli translated almost all of his works into Italian.
In the bottom center of our sketch - written in china ink - the name of the sitter, 'L'Avv.to Signorelli', can be found
The last of the pictures you can find below depicts Pietro Napoli Signorelli from an engraving by Carlo Biondi, Neapolitan engraver, from the opera 'Biography of the illustrious men of the Kingdom of Naples', G. Boccanera from Macerata. | | Age: Late eighteenth century | | Dimensions: 14 x 9 inc. | | Price: € 450,00 | | Item n°: RC 181 |
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