Family Name: Pillori
First Name: Niccolò
Main places of activity:
Place
Florence
Personal info:
Career
Pillori was the abbot and chaplain of the metropolitan Church in Florence.


He was a member of the Accademia degli Apatisti (founded 1635), where he discussed and promoted arts, wrote poetry under the pseudonym of Ilcindio Anauriense and acquired a certain fame for his oratory skills in the 1760s and 1770s.

As a man of letters, Pillori also welcomed foreign visitors and was part of an extensive network he built by assiduous attendance at local salons. He taught Italian to French and English scholars, including Edward Gibbon.
Translations

translations activities

Pillori translated from English, and produced widely circulating Italian versions of some British literary classics of the Eighteenth Century.

secondary bibliography references

E. W. Cochrane, ‘Le relazioni delle Accademie Toscane del Settecento con la cultura europea’, Archivio Storico Italiano, 111, n°1 (400) 1953, pp. 78-108.

B. Barr, ‘More first editions of William Mason’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Vol. 10, n°3 (1993), pp. 278-316.

A. Castagnino, ‘Traduzioni e circolazione delle Histories di William Robertson nella penisola italiana nel secondo Settecento’, Diciottesimo Secolo, II, 2017, pp. 265-292.

Id., ‘Interprètes de la nation anglaise en Toscane au XVIIIe siècle’, in A. Burkardt (ed.), Médiateurs et instances de médiation dans l’histoire du voyage, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, forthcoming.

Translations

  • A description of the pictures, statues, busto's basso-relievo's, and other curiosities at the Earl of Pembroke's house at Wilton. The antiques of this collection contain the whole of Cardinal Richlieu's and Cardinal Mazarine's, and the greatest part of the Earl of Arundel's; besides several particular pieces purchased at different times

  • Translation Title: Descrizione delle pitture, statue, busti, ed altre curiosità esistenti in Inghilterra a Wilton nella villa di mylord conte di Pembroke, e di Montgomery. Operetta tradotta dall'inglese, e dedicata a sua eccellenza mylord conte suddetto
  • Original Author: Richard Cowdry
  • Original title: A description of the pictures, statues, busto's basso-relievo's, and other curiosities at the Earl of Pembroke's house at Wilton. The antiques of this collection contain the whole of Cardinal Richlieu's and Cardinal Mazarine's, and the greatest part of the Earl of Arundel's; besides several particular pieces purchased at different times
  • Publ. Year From: 1750 to:
  • lang: English
  • Translation: Descrizione delle pitture, statue, busti, ed altre curiosità esistenti in Inghilterra a Wilton nella villa di mylord conte di Pembroke, e di Montgomery. Operetta tradotta dall'inglese, e dedicata a sua eccellenza mylord conte suddetto
  • Pub. Place: Florence
  • Pub. Date: 1753
  • Lang: Italian

  • Elfrida, a dramatic poem

  • Translation Title: Elfrida poema drammatico scritto sopra il modello dell'antica tragedia greca dal sig. Mason inglese e tradotto in versi italiani dall'abate Antonio Pillori fiorentino
  • Original Author: William Mason
  • Original title: Elfrida, a dramatic poem
  • Publ. Year From: 1751 to:
  • lang: English
  • Translation: Elfrida poema drammatico scritto sopra il modello dell'antica tragedia greca dal sig. Mason inglese e tradotto in versi italiani dall'abate Antonio Pillori fiorentino
  • Pub. Place: Florence
  • Pub. Date: 1773
  • Lang: Italian

  • An Essay on Criticism

  • Translation Title: Saggio sopra la critica della poesia inglese di Alessandro Pope nell'italiana trasportato da Antonio Pillori accademico Fiorentino
  • Original Author: Alexander Pope
  • Original title: An Essay on Criticism
  • Publ. Year From: 1710 to:
  • lang: English
  • Translation: Saggio sopra la critica della poesia inglese di Alessandro Pope nell'italiana trasportato da Antonio Pillori accademico Fiorentino
  • Pub. Place: Florence
  • Pub. Date: 1758
  • Lang: Italian

  • The history of America

  • Translation Title: Storia di America del dottore Guglielmo Robertson tradotta dall'originale inglese dall'abate Antonio Pillori fiorentino, e divisa in tomi 4
  • Original Author: William Robertson
  • Original title: The history of America
  • Publ. Year From: 1776 to: 1777
  • lang: English
  • Translation: Storia di America del dottore Guglielmo Robertson tradotta dall'originale inglese dall'abate Antonio Pillori fiorentino, e divisa in tomi 4
  • Pub. Place: Florence
  • Pub. Date: 1776
  • Lang: Italian
  • Note:

    Compared to both the original version and another comtemporary translation from Niccolò Erizzo, Pillori made sure to milden and moderate the text when confronted with its religious and political themes.

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