FRUGONI, CARLO INNOCENZIO MARIA (1692 1768), Italian poet, was born at Genoa on Nov. 21, 1692. He took Monastic vows at an early age. From 1716 to 1724 he filled the chairs of rhetoric at Brescia, Rome, Genoa, Bologna and Modena successively. Through Cardinal Bentivoglio he was recommended to Antonio Farnese, duke of Parma, who appointed him his poet laureate; and he remained at the court of Parma until the death of Antonio, after which he returned to Genoa. Through the intercession of Bentivoglio, he obtained from the pope the remission of his monastic vows. After the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle he returned to the court of Parma, and devoted his later years to poetry. He died on Dec. 20, 1768. Frugoni was one of the best of the school of the Arcadian Academy, and his lyrics and pastorals had great facility and elegance.
Editions of his collected works appeared at Parma (io vols., and at Lucca (15 vols., 1799) ; a selection at Brescia (4 vols., 1782) . See Calcaterra, Storia della poesia f rugoniana (1920) ; and A. Equini, C. 1. Frugoni alle Corti dei Farnesi et dei Borboni di Parma (2 vols., Milan, 1919-2o) .