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See also:FOLENGO, TEOFILO (1491-1544) , otherwise known as Merlino Coccajo or Cocajo, one of the See also:principal See also:Italian macaronic poets, was See also:born of See also:noble parentage at Cipada near See also:Mantua on the 8th of See also:November 1491. From his See also:infancy he showed See also:great vivacity of mind, and a remarkable cleverness in making verses. At the See also:age of sixteen he entered the monastery of See also:Monte See also:Casino near See also:Brescia, and eighteen months afterwards he became a professed member of the See also:Benedictine See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. For a few years his See also:life as a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk seems to have been tolerably See also:regular, and he is said to have produced a considerable quantity of Latin See also:verse, written, not unsuccessfully, in the Virgilian See also:style. About the See also:year 1516 he forsook the monastic life for the society of a well-born See also:young woman named Girolama Dieda, with whom he wandered about the See also:country for several years, often suffering great poverty, having no other means of support than his See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for versification. His first publication was the Merlini Cocaii macaronicon, which relates the adventures of a fictitious See also:hero named Baldus. The coarse buffoonery of this See also:work is often relieved by touches of genuine See also:poetry, as well as by graphic descriptions and acute criticisms of men and See also:manners. Its macaronic style is rendered peculiarly perplexing to the foreigner by the frequent introduction of words and phrases from the Mantuan See also:patois. Though frequently censured for its occasional grossness of See also:idea and expression, it soon attained a wide popularity, and within a very few years passed through several See also:editions. Folengo's next See also:production was the Orlandino, an Italian poem of eight cantos, written in rhymed octaves. It appeared in 1526, and See also:bore on the See also:title-See also:page the new See also:pseudonym of Limerno Pitocco (See also:Merlin the See also:Beggar) da Mantova. In the same year, wearied with a life of dissipation, Folengo returned to his ecclesiastical obedience; and shortly afterwards wrote his See also:Chaos del tri per uno, in which, partly in See also:prose, partly in verse, sometimes in Latin, sometimes in Italian, and sometimes in macaronic, he gives a veiled See also:account of the vicissitudes of the life he had lived under his various names,
We next find him about the year 1533 See also:writing in rhymed octaves a life of See also:Christ entitled L'Umanitd del Figliuolo di See also:Die; and he is known to have composed, still later, another religious poem upon the creation, fall and restoration of See also:man, besides a few tragedies. These, however, have never been published. Some of his later years were spent in See also:Sicily under the patronage of See also:Don Fernando de See also:Gonzaga, the See also:viceroy; he even appears for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to have had See also:charge of a monastery there. In 1543 he retired to See also:Santa Croce de Campesio, near See also:Bassano; and there he died on the 9th of See also:December 1544•
Folengo is frequently quoted and still more frequently copied by See also:Rabelais. The earlier editions of his See also:Opus macaronicum are.now extremely rare. The often reprinted edition of 153o exhibits the See also:text as revised by the author after he had begun to amend his life.
End of Article: FOLENGO, TEOFILO (1491-1544)
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