Biagio Buonaccorsi

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Biagio Buonaccorsi (* presumably 1472 ; † not before January 12, 1526 ) was an official of the Republic of Florence and a poet . From August 1498 to autumn 1512 he was in the service of his hometown and his colleague, as well as a personal friend of Niccolò Machiavelli .

Life

It is not certain in which part of Florence Biagio Buonaccorsi was born and grew up. Based on his personal notes it is known that on April 15, 1495 he married Lessandra di Daniello Ficini († 1510) from the family of the highly reputed Marsilio Ficino . His father died in December 1495. The rest of his private life was tragic insofar as it was overshadowed by the death of many children and the death of the idolized wife. In total, Buonaccorsi was married four times.

He joined the chancellery in his hometown, in which Niccolò Machiavelli had served as Second Chancellor since June 1498, in August of that year. He was appointed by Antonio di Giovanni della Valle, the secretary of the two law firms. From January 22, 1499 he was employed as coadjutor of the First Chancellor, that is, the assistant to Marcello Virgilio Adriani . Occasionally he also took on missions, such as the accompaniment of Francesco Soderini to France from September 1501 to the summer of 1502.
After the republic, reconstituted in 1494 after the expulsion of the Medici , was overthrown in late summer 1512 due to the return of the tyrants, Buonaccorsi lost alongside Machiavelli in the His offices in late autumn of the year. Later he was only documented as an assistant to a legation in the summer of 1515 and was probably chosen because of his beautiful handwriting to accompany the new rulers or their party people. Buonaccorsi also deserves some prominence, as he copied Machiavelli's writing “De principatibus” (“The Prince”) by hand and - more than a decade before it went to print - contributed to its distribution.

Biagio Buonaccorsi's death is dated to January 1526 or shortly thereafter. At this point, on January 12th, his personal memory and household book broke off with the last entry.

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  • Fredi Chiappelli: Biagio Buonaccorsi. Somnario delle cose , in: ebj. Niccolò Machiavelli. Legazioni. Commissarie. Scritti di governo , 4 vol., Bari 1971–1984, each appendix.
  • Denis Fachard: Biagio Buonaccorsi , Bologna 1976, pp. 169-316 (letters, private memory book and poems).
  • Franco Gaeta: Niccolò Machiavelli. Lettere , Turin 1980 (various private letters from and to Machiavelli).
  • Enrico Niccolini: Biagio Buonaccorsi. Diario dall'anno 1498 all'anno 1512 , Rome 1999 (political diary).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ On the presumed year of Buonaccorsi's death, see Denis Fachard: Biagio Buonaccorsi , Bologna 1976, p. 217 (last date in his 'Ricordi'), p. 27 (corresponding assessment of the source by Fachard).
personal data
SURNAME Buonaccorsi, Biagio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Official of the Republic of Florence and friend of Niccolò Machiavelli
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1472
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH after January 16, 1526