Eugenius of Palermo

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Eugenius of Palermo , also Eugenius Siculus (lat.), Εὐγενἠς Εὐγένιος ὁ τῆς Πανόρμου (Greek), Eugenius Amiratus or Eugenio da Palermo (* 1130 in Palermo ; † after 1203) was Ammiratus (administrative officer, Admiral ) of the medieval Kingdom of Sicily , Writer and translator from Arabic and Greek.

Life

Born in Palermo, he came from a family of Greek origin. His grandfather Eugenius , his uncle and his father Johannes were officials of the Norman kings of Sicily from the Hauteville family. Eugenius began his career under King Wilhelm II. He first served him from 1174 as Magister duana baronum , the royal finance chamber for the continental territories with its seat in Salerno . Under his successor Tankred von Lecce he was promoted to emir . He also held the office after Tankred's death in February 1194. After Heinrich VI moved in and was coronated. In Palermo at the end of 1194 he was suspected of being involved in a conspiracy by Sybille, Tankred's widow, against the imperial couple. He was captured with the other alleged conspirators and brought across the Alps to Germany, where he was imprisoned for some time, presumably at Trifels Castle . In 1196 he was rehabilitated and returned to the Kingdom of Sicily as a family of Hildesheim Bishop Konrad von Querfurt († 1202) , the Imperial Chancellor for Italy. From 1198 to 1202 he held the post of Magister Camerarius of Apulia and Terra di Lavoro. After that there are no more signs of life.

Act

Eugenius was both a writer and a translator. He wrote poems in Greek, 24 of which have been preserved and which, with great metrical and rhetorical dexterity, also give some insights into his life, especially c. I that arose during captivity. Carmen XXIV is an enkomion on Wilhelm II of Sicily in the style of the Byzantine imperial panegyric. His translation of the sayings of the Sibyl of Erythrai from Greek into Latin has only survived in a pseudo-joachitic revision. He either carried out or at least initiated the translation of Claudius Ptolemy's optics , through which the work of the present was preserved, from Arabic into Latin. He worked with Henricus Aristippus on the translation of the Almagest . By Evelyn Jamison proposed identification with Hugo Falcandus was not accepted.

literature

  • Marcello Gigante : Eugenios v. Palermo . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . Volume 4, 1989, Col. 82-83
  • Vera von Falkenhausen :  Eugenio da Palermo. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 43:  Enzo – Fabrizi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1993.
  • Evelyn Jamison: Admiral Eugenius of Sicily, His Life and Work and the Authorship of the Epistola ad Petrum and the Historia Hugonis Falcandi Siculi. London 1957
  • Konstantin Horna: Metrical and text-critical remarks on the poems of Eugenios of Palermo . In: Byzantine Journal . Volume 14, 1905, pp. 468–478 ( doi : 10.1515 / byzs.1905.14.2.468 )
  • Konstantin Horna: New contributions to the poems of Eugenios of Palermo . In: Byzantine Journal. Volume 16, 1907, pp. 454–459 ( doi : 10.1515 / byzs.1907.16.2.454 )
  • Carolina Cupane : Eugenios of Palermo. Rhetoric and Reality in the Norman Royal Court of the 12th Century . In: Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl (ed.): DULCE MELOS II. Files of the 5th International Symposium: Latin and Greek Poetry in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times. Vienna, 25.-27. November 2010, Pisa 2013, pp. 247-270

Remarks

  1. ^ So Cupane: Eugenios von Palermo especially pp. 265–270

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personal data
SURNAME Eugenius of Palermo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eugenius Siculus (Latin); Εὐγενἠς Εὐγένιος ὁ τῆς Πανόρμου (Greek); Eugenius Amiratus; Eugenio da Palermo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Functionary at the Norman royal court in Palermo, writer and translator from Arabic and Greek
DATE OF BIRTH around 1130
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH after 1203