Sebastiano Bagolino
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| Born | 25 March 1562 Alcamo, province of Trapani |
| Died | 26 July 1604 (aged about 42) Alcamo |
| Occupation | Scholar, poet |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Period | Renaissance |
| Spouse | Francesca Battiata |
Sebastiano Bagolino was a Latin poet and scholar.
He was born in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani, from Giovan Leonardo, a painter, and Caterina Tabone. His father, probably native of Verona, painted several frescoes for the churches in Alcamo. His mother came from a family quite rich and that gave the poet a fairly comfortable life.
When a child he was introduced to painting and music, but he had a real aptitude for humanities: in fact Bagolino’s natural ability in writing Latin lines procured him the admittance, even very young, into the house of Francesco Moncada, prince of Paternò, patron of several literates and whom he dedicated various works to. However, when he was only 19, his will to enter a more open cultural circle, brought him to move to Naples, the centre of humanistic studies of that period.
He taught poetics to the young sons of noble families and got the protection of Ferrante Carafa, whose son he was the educator. Very soon he learnt to write and speak Latin, Italian and Spanish perfectly well here and to read out lines, so earning the esteem of leading figures like Giovanbattista La Porta.
Bagolino studied humanistic poets, but as he did not feel amalgamated from the intellectual point of view, he went back to Palermo, under the protection of Francesco Moncada, prince of Paternò again.
He put his knowledge on painting and music at Moncada’s disposal, accompanying him on his frequent trips to his estates: to Caltanissetta, Adernò, Siracusa, Militello, until he had a quarrel with Monacada’s mother, Aloisa Luna.
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