Antonio Beccadelli

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Antonio Beccadelli, Panormita

Antonio Beccadelli ( also called Panormita due to his origin from Palermo ; * 1394 in Palermo, † January 15, 1471 in Naples ) was an Italian Renaissance humanist .

Handwritten marginal notes by Beccadelli in a manuscript of a Latin translation of Plutarch from his possession. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana , Vat.Lat. 3349, fol. 161v

Beccadelli studied in Siena and in 1425 published in Bologna a Latin collection of obscene and satirical epigrams entitled Hermaphroditus , dedicated to Cosimo de 'Medici . In 1429 he became court poet of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti . In 1434 he changed patrons by going to the court of Alfonso V of Aragon and becoming its secretary and trusted advisor. Beccadelli promoted the spread of humanistic studies in Naples. In 1458 he was the founder of the Accademia Pontaniana , which still exists today and was further developed by his student and successor Giovanni Pontano . At the time of Beccadelli it was called Porticus Antoniana . He wrote a collection of examples of the deeds and sayings of his patron Alfons, which had biographical features (De dictis et factis Alphonsi regis) as well as Latin poems and letters.

Text editions and translations

  • Antonio Beccadelli: Hermaphroditus . Latin and German. Reclam, Leipzig 1994.
  • Donatella Coppini (Ed.): Antonii Panhormitae Hermaphroditus. Bulzoni, Rome 1990, ISBN 88-7119-351-2 (critical edition with detailed introduction).
  • Holt Parker (Ed.): Antonio Beccadelli: The Hermaphrodite. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2010, ISBN 978-0-674-04757-0 (Latin text and English translation).

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SURNAME Beccadelli, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Panormita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian humanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1394
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1471
Place of death Naples