Battista Mantovano

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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

Historia ecclesiae Lauretanae , 1489

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personal data
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