Battista Mantovano
Battista Mantovano (also Baptista Mantuanus ) (born April 17, 1447 in Mantua ; † March 20, 1516 ibid) was an Italian poet and humanist .
Life
Mantovano was born Giovanni Battista Spagnoli and came from a Spanish family. Mantovano studied under Georgius Merula in Padua . After a dispute with his father, he joined the Carmelite Order in 1463 and eventually became its general (1513). During the 1470s he studied theology and taught at the Monastery of San Martino in Bologna . In 1493 he was appointed director of studies at the Reformed Carmelite monastery in Mantua . Mantovano wrote religious poems in the Latin language in the style of Virgil . He wrote ten shepherd poems, an epic poem dedicated to Alfonso of Aragon , and “De calamitatibus nostrum temporum” in which he criticized certain aspects of human culture. Mantovano was the author of many other works and was also known outside of Italy .
Works
- De vita beata: With the addition of nine distiches In Laude auctoris et opusculi . Richard Paffraet, Deventer around 1495 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
- De suorum temporum calamitatibus . Richard Paffraet, Deventer 22. XI. 1497 ( digitized version )
- Baptistae Mantuani De patientia aurei: libri 3 . - Daventrie: Richardus Pafraet, 1501. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- F. Baptiste Mantuani Bucolica Seu adolescentia in decem aeglogas divisa / ab Jodoco Badio Ascensio familiariter exposita cum indice dictionum. - Argentinae: Pruss, 1503. Digitized edition
- Baptiste Mantuani carmen de fortuna . de Borne, Deventer approx. 1510 ( digitized )
- F. Baptistae Mantuani ... fastorum libri duodecim: quibus praemittitur: Carmen ad Julium II., Pontif. Max. Carmen ad Leonem X., pontif. Max. Vita auhoris ...; ita et alia quaepiam . - Argentorati: Schurer, 1518. Digitized edition
Web links
- Literature by and about Battista Mantovano in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Battista Mantovano in the German Digital Library
- Italian literature (15th century) . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 89.
- Secundae Parthenices opus , printed in Cologne 1500, digital facsimile, CAMENA project
- Bucolica , printed in Paris in 1528, digital facsimile, CAMENA project
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SURNAME | Mantovano, Battista |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spagnoli, Giovanni Battista (real name); Baptista Mantuanus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet, humanist and Carmilite monk |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1447 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mantua |
DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1516 |
Place of death | Mantua |