Family Name: Jacobacci
First Name: Vincenzo
Birth Date: Fri, Dec 29, 1752
Birth Place: Parma
Death Date: Thu, Jan 19, 1815
Death Place: Parma
Main places of activity:
Place From To
Parma 1751 1814
Personal info:
Education

Vincenzo Jacobacci was the son of Giovanni Jacobacci and Domenica Pinazzi.

Gifted with a prodigious memory, he attended university to become doctor in civil and canon law.

Career

Jacobacci had a long career as a public servant for the Duchy of Parma, under the Bourbons first, during the French occupation after and in the post-Napoleonic era.

His probity and literary interests apparently prevented him from advancing further than primo ufficiale delle Segreterie, before Moreau de Saint-Méry took up the administration of the Duchy for France in 1802, and appointed Jacobacci secretary and legal conservator for mortgages and real estates. In 1811, he became counsellor to the prefecture and eventually was charged with overseeing the printing presses of Parma.

Jacobacci died before taking office as assessor to the Council of State under the new duchess of Parma Marie Louise of Habsburg.
Translations Other Works

translations activities

As he puts it himself, besides writing his own poetry Jacobacci did "consecrare le ore non dovute all'impiego" to translating French tragedies (preface to Mustafo). He did not approve of the Italian tendency to adopt the French alexandrine verse, and preferred to use free verse.

Jacobacci's translations are considered faithful, and both Mérope and Adélaïde were played at the theatre of Parma following his version.

secondary bibliography references

Ireneo Affò and Angela Pezzana, Memorie degli scrittori e letterati Parmigiani, Della Ducale tipografia, vol. VII, 1833, 583-7.

Roberto Lasagni, "Jacobacci Domenico Vincenzo Carlo", in Dizionario biografico dei parmigiani, PPS, 1999.

Translations

  • Mustapha et Zéangir, tragédie

  • Translation Title: Mustafo e Zanghire, tragedia trasportata dal francese di N. Chamfort, in verso sciolto italiano
  • Original Author: Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
  • Original title: Mustapha et Zéangir, tragédie
  • Publ. Year From: 1777 to:
  • lang: French
  • Translation: Mustafo e Zanghire, tragedia trasportata dal francese di N. Chamfort, in verso sciolto italiano
  • Publisher: Stamperia reale
  • Pub. Place: Parma
  • Pub. Date: 1781
  • Lang: Italian

  • Adélaïde du Guesclin

  • Translation Title: Adelaide di Ghesclino tragedia di Voltaire tradotta in verso sciolto italiano
  • Original Author: Voltaire
  • Original title: Adélaïde du Guesclin
  • Publ. Year From: 1764 to:
  • lang: French
  • Translation: Adelaide di Ghesclino tragedia di Voltaire tradotta in verso sciolto italiano
  • Publisher: Stamperia reale
  • Pub. Place: Parma
  • Pub. Date: 1782
  • Lang: Italian

  • Mérope

  • Translation Title: Merope, tragedia di Voltaire, tradotta in versi italiani
  • Original Author: Voltaire
  • Original title: Mérope
  • Publ. Year From: 1743 to:
  • lang: French
  • Translation: Merope, tragedia di Voltaire, tradotta in versi italiani
  • Publisher: Giambattista Bodoni
  • Pub. Place: Parma
  • Pub. Date: 1815
  • Lang: Italian
  • Note:

    Jacobacci dedicated this elegant edition issued in a limited number of copies to the prefet of Parma Dupont Delporte. On the 23rd of March 1816 this Italian version was played at the Parma theatre.

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