Aires de Figueiredo Barbosa

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Aires de Figueiredo Barbosa (also: Ayres Barbosa or Aires Barbosa; around * 1470 in Aveiro ; † January 20, 1540 in Esgueira ( Aveiro )) was an Iberian humanist , scholar and professor at the University of Salamanca .

Live and act

He was the son of Fernando Barbosa (around * 1450) and Catarina Eanes de Figueiredo (around * 1450).

First he studied at the University of Salamanca and later went to Florence to continue his studies with Angelo Poliziano . Returning to Salamanca , he began to teach Greek there from 1495 and rhetoric from 1503. He enjoyed a good reputation as a scholar, such as the Portuguese, neo-Latin writer André de Resende (1498–1573). Barbosa married the widowed Isabel Nieto († 1520) on August 29, 1508. The family had three children, one from their first marriage to Catarina de Figueiredo and two from the new partnership Fernão Barbosa, Margarida Barbosa. Isabel Nieto's first husband was Juan Suarez de Oviedo († 1506), professor at the University of Salamanca.

He wrote several books on poetry , literary criticism, and grammar, and in his most important work he commented on the Apostolic History of Arator . In 1523 he received a call to the Portuguese court , where he was responsible for teaching the Infante and later Cardinal Afonso de Portugal . His successor on the chair in Salamanca was Hernán Núñez de Toledo .

Works

  • Obra Poética. (1517) Portvgaliae Monvmenta neolatina vol. XIII Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra Universidade de Aveiro [1]
  • Relectio de verbis obliquis. (1511)
  • Relectio cui titulus Epometria. (1515)
  • Relectio cui titulus prosodia et orthographia. (1517)

literature

  • José López Rueda: Helenistas españoles del siglo XVI Consejo superior de investigaciones cientificas, Instituto de filología, Madrid 1973, pp. 53-59.
  • José Pérez Riesco: Thèse inédite sur Arias Barbosa. Madrid, 1948.
  • Italo Pantani, Margarida Miranda, Henrique Manso: Aires Barbosa na cosmopólis renascentista. Coimbra 2014, ISBN 978-989-721-044-0

Web links

  • José Henrique Rodrigues Manso: A Imprensa Salmantina Nos Inícios de Quinhentos: A EDIÇÃO DA OBRA HUMANISTA DE AIRES BARBOSA, O MESTRE GREGO. Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã (Portugal) pp. 571–579 [2]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ História e memórias since Académia Real sciencias the de Lisboa. Vol. 8 Academia das Ciências Acad., Lisboa 1823, p. 6
  2. ^ De Pinho, ST: Aires Barbosa: obra poética . 2013, ISBN 978-989-26-0552-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Barbosa, Aires de Figueiredo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barbosa, Ayres; Barbosa, Arius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese humanist, scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1470
PLACE OF BIRTH Aveiro
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1540
Place of death Esgueira