Lubrano biography

Italian Baroque poet (1619–1693)

Giacomo Lubrano (12 September 1619 – October 1693) was an Italian Jesuit, Marinistpoet and preacher.

Lubrano biography

Biography

Giacomo Lubrano was born in Naples in 1619. He entered the Society of Jesus on 30 April 1635, at the age of fifteen. Apart from a two-year absence from his native city between 1658 and 1660, and his many preaching commitments in other Italian regions (he received invitations to deliver sermons in Rome, Palermo, Venice,^[2] and even Malta), he spent most of his life in and around Naples.

Late in life, he was affected by a partial paralysis of the tongue. He died in Naples in 1693.

Works

Lubrano was widely known during his lifetime as a preacher and poet. He preached before Pope Clement X in November 1670, and in 1671 gave a sermon at the celebration of the canonisation of St.

Francis Borgia in the Church of the Gesù in Rome.Giambattista Vico, who cultivated poetry in his youth, called upo