Bondi

Bondi, CLEMENTE, an Italian poet, was born 27th June 1742 at Mezzano, in Parma. He was educated by the Jesuits, and when still very young, was appointed to deliver lectures on rhetoric in the Royal Convent at Parma. Here he produced his first work, Giornata Villereccia (1773), a comic picture of the rural pleasures of the brotherhood. For having celebrated in verse the abolition of the Jesuit order, he was compelled to fly to the Tyrol; and after his return he lived at Venice, at Mantua, and at Milan, where he found a patron in the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, who appointed him his librarian at Brünn. Later he lived at Vienna, where he died on 20th June 1821. His poems are lyrical, descriptive, satirical, and elegiac, written in pure style and graceful verse.