Stefano Guazzo (; 1530âÂÂ1593) was an Italian writer from Casale Monferrato.
Biography
Guazzo studied law and thereafter worked for Lodovico Gonzaga and other members of the family, for which he was active as a diplomat in France and the Papal States. In 1561, he and other colleagues founded the l<nowiki>'</nowiki>Accademia degli Illustrati in Casale Monferrato.
He died at Pavia, where he had moved to supervise the studies of his son.
Works
Writings by Guazzo include:
- The civil conversation (Bozzola, Brescia, 1574), a treatise in four books, in which, in the form of a dialogue between two parties (Hannibal and Knight), he addresses issues such as education and family and social life (online)
- Dialoghi piacevoli (Bertano, Milan, 1586) (online)
- Letters (Domenico Tarino, Turin, 1591) (online)
- Choice of rhymes (Comino Ventura, Bergamo, 1592)
- The garland of Countess Maria Angela Beccaria (posthumous, Bartoli, Genoa, 1595), a collection of madrigals by other authors dedicated to a noblewoman (id = qvT0jlpgh2cC online)
American author Sunny Decker takes the title of An Empty Spoon, her account of teaching in poor Philadelphia schools during the 1960s, from a quotation appearing in The Civil Conversation: "I want to fil your mouth with an empty spoone: That is, to seeme to teach, not to teach."
References
- Gabriella Milani, Guazzo, Stefano, in Letteratura italiana Einaudi, Alberto Asor Rosa, ed., volume 19, Dizionario degli autori D-M, La Biblioteca di Repubblica-L'Espresso, 2008.
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