Alessandro Verri (9 November 1741 – 23 September 1816) was an Italian author.
14-435: Verri is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alessandro Verri (1741–1816), Italian author Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri (born 1963), Brazilian footballer and football manager better known as Dunga Francesco Verri (1885–1945), Italian track cycling racer Pietro Verri (1728–1797), Italian philosopher, economist, historian and writer members of
28-530: A slave . According to tradition, the fire that destroyed the second temple was set on the day Alexander the Great was born, 21 July 356 BC. Herostratus was then captured and tortured on the rack , where he confessed to having committed the arson in an attempt to immortalize his name. To dissuade those of similar intentions, the Ephesian authorities not only executed Herostratus, but attempted to condemn him to
42-684: A criminal act in order to become famous. Archeological evidence indicates the site of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus had been of sacred use since the Bronze Age , and the original building was destroyed during a flood in the 7th century BC. A second temple was commissioned by King Croesus of Lydia around 560 BC and built by Cretan architects including Chersiphron , constructed largely of marble , and measuring 103 metres (337 ft) long and 55 metres (180 ft) wide with its pillars standing 12 metres (40 ft) tall. The sculpted bases of
56-422: A legacy of obscurity by forbidding mention of his name under penalty of death. However, the ancient historian Theopompus , who was not Ephesian but rather Chian , mentions the name of Herostratus in his Philippica , and it appears again later in the works of Strabo . It is said that in fact his name has outlived the names of his judges, and in his 1658 work Hydriotaphia Sir Thomas Browne states: But
70-554: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Verri&oldid=910426379 " Categories : Surnames Italian-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alessandro Verri Born in Milan into an aristocratic family, as
84-474: A third temple at the site began in 323 BC, resulting in a larger and more ornate temple that would be included by Antipater of Sidon as one of Seven Wonders of the Ancient World . Herostratus' name lived on in classical literature and has passed into modern languages as a term for someone who commits a criminal act in order to achieve notoriety. According to Julia H. Fawcett, Herostratus "exemplifies
98-592: A young man he participated in the Accademia dei Pugni [ Wikidata ] , founded together with his brother Pietro Verri and their friends Cesare Beccaria , Alfonso Longo , Pietro Secchi , Giambattista Biffi and Luigi Lambertenghi. Later he collaborated in the magazine Il Caffè . In this period he wrote the Saggio sulla Storia d'Italia ("Essay on Italian History", 1761–1766). Subsequently Verri moved to Rome where his main attention moved to theatre. He
112-515: Is his correspondence with his brother Pietro. Verri died in Rome in 1816. The younger brother of Alessandro Verri and Pietro Verri, Giovanni Verri, is supposed to be the natural father of the noted Italian novelist and poet Alessandro Manzoni . Their other brother, Carlo , was also a politician. Herostratus Herostratus ( Ancient Greek : Ἡρόστρατος ) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying
126-638: The Scipios"), published in two parts in 1792 and 1804, in which the ghosts of illustrious men of the past ( Cicero , Caesar and others) evoke the ancient Roman civilizations, stressing its violent background in contrast with the peaceful Christian civilization . A third part remained unpublished until 1967. His other works include a translation of Daphnis and Chloe (1812), the novel La vita di Erostrato ("Life of Herostratus ", 1815) and Vicende memorabili de' suoi tempi dal 1789 al 1801 ("Memorable happenings of His Times from 1789 to 1801", 1858). Also notable
140-479: The house Verri della Bosia : Karl Graf Verri della Bosia (1790–18??), Bavarian general Maximilian Graf von Verri della Bosia (1824–1909), Bavarian general Other uses [ edit ] Verri, Albania , a village in Shëngjergj municipality, Tirana County, Albania [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Verri . If an internal link intending to refer to
154-460: The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. [...] Herostratus lives that burnt the Temple of Diana , he is almost lost that built it [...] Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, then any that stand remembred [sic] in the known account of time? Work on
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#1732780427257168-473: The pillars contained life-sized carvings and the roof opened to the sky around a statue of Artemis . The second temple was included on an early list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Herodotus in the 5th century BC, and was well known in ancient times. Little is known about the life of Herostratus, though it is thought he may have been someone of low social standing, a non- Ephesian or
182-480: The second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (on the outskirts of present-day Selçuk ), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World . The act prompted his execution and the creation of a damnatio memoriae law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing. The law was ultimately ineffective, as evidenced by surviving accounts of his crime. Thus, Herostratus has become an eponym for someone who commits
196-513: Was one of the first Italian translators of Shakespeare . He wrote two tragedies: Pantea and La congiura di Milano ("The Conspiracy of Milan"), both published in 1779. In 1782 he wrote the novel Le avventure di Saffo poetessa di Mitilene ("The adventures of Sappho , poet of Mitilene"), but his most famous work is the Notti romane al sepolcro degli Scipioni ("Roman Nights at the Sepulchre of
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