Stefano Guazzo

Stefano Guazzo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsteːfano ˈgwattso]; 1530–1593) 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'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), 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."[1]

gollark: Well, we could engineer humans with better DNA error correction or something, eventually.
gollark: Forever might be an overestimate, but cancer generally will probably stick around for a while as it is a complex and hard-to-cure thing.
gollark: ... maybe these are just hard problems which they're working on, rather than some kind of conspiracy?
gollark: It seems like the problem here might be lack of systems to track and respond to demand, since I think lots of people probably would be willing to pay some money for a ventilator to be available if they need it during this pandemic.
gollark: Ones higher than LEO will stick around for a while. They won't *work* for a hundred years though.

References
  1. https://www.librarything.com/work/172111 and, separately, review of the cited volume
  • 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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