Troiano Marulli
Troiano Marulli, 4th Count of Barletta[1] (3 June 1774 – 2 October 1859) was an Italian military officer and man of letters.[2]
Biography
He was born into a noble family in Barletta, the son of Count Paolo Marulli (1733–1790) and his wife Maria Giuseppa (née Venusio). He attended the College of Tolomei in Siena and was sent to complete his education at the University of Bologna, then studied philosophy under Sebastiano Canterzani.[3]
From 1796, when threats of war with France became recurrent, he organized as a popular leader several uprisings. In 1799, he served in the army of Ferdinand I, during the first French invasion. Having formed an infantry regiment at his own expense he obtained the garrison of Capua and was raised to the rank of colonel. In 1804 he was sent to the Abruzzi as commander of the cordon sanitaire on all the Kingdom's frontiers from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic. In 1805 he renounced the rank of general offered him by the French, for which he was made a target of their persecution; he was imprisoned for about three years.
When Ferdinand I returned, he was reinstated in his rank of colonel and, therefore, was appointed by Francis I president of the Second War Council of Naples. In 1837 Ferdinand II appointed him commander of the province of Capitanata, a post he held until 1844, when for health reasons he voluntarily resigned.
He died, in Naples, on October 2, 1859.
Writings
A scholar who belonged to the Accademia Pontaniana in Naples, the Colombaria in Florence and other Italian learned societies. He wrote numerous works; including: Eulogy of Maria Cristina of Savoy, Queen of the Two Sicilies, Pia, Augusta, Chronicle of Barletta, historical memoirs that the author read at the Accademia Pontiniana in 1852, Historical-critical discourse on the bronze Colossus existing in the city of Barletta. He also published a translation of some of Anacreon's odes, which he followed up with a critical essay of the translation prepared by Francesco Saverio De Rogati, in which he accused the latter of having illanguidated Anacreon's poetry, transforming the meter at will, and of having paraphrased rather than translated the original text.[4]
Private life
Troiano Marulli married the Duchess Teresa of San Cesareo. He was the father of Gennaro and Giacomo Marulli.
Works
- Una nuova poetica, o sia Quattro discorsi accademici, della eccellenza della poesia; dei veri generi della medesima; dell'Anacreontica; e della traduzione di Anacreonte fatta dal Sig. D. Saverio de Rogatis (1810)
- Tobiade, poema morale in ottava rima (1816)
- Discorso storico critico sopra il colosso di bronzo, esistente nella città di Barletta, del conte D. Trojano Marulli (1816)
- Versi lirici del conte D. Trojano Marulli (1816)
- Esame diplomatico-storico della lettera di Arco re di Laconia ad Onia II. sommo sacerdote degli Ebrei (1821)
- I Puritani, o la felicità dei tempi nostri (1835)
- La divinazione filologica sul Filocopo del Boccaccio (1844)
- L'amministrazione delle province meridionali: prima e dopo le riforme francesi del 1806 (1902; edited by Giovanni Beltrani)
Notes
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- ↑ Also spelled Trojano Marulli.
- ↑ Villani, Carlo (1904). "Marulli, Troiano." In: Scrittori ed artisti pugliesi. Trani: Ed. Vecchi, pp. 583–85.
- ↑ Giucci, Gaetano (1845). "Marulli conte Trojano." In: Degli scienziati italiani formanti parte del VII congresso in Napoli nell'autunno del 1845: notizie biografiche raccolte da Gaetano Giucci. Napoli: Tipografia Parigina di A. Lebon, p. 277.
- ↑ Biagetti, Maria Teresa (1991). "De Rogati, Francesco Saverio." In: Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Vol. 39. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
