Filippo Beroaldo the Elder

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Filippo Beroaldo the Elder ( Latinized Philippus Beroaldus (Senior) ; * November 7, 1453 in Bologna ; † 1505 ibid) was the uncle of Filippo Beroaldo the Younger and an Italian philologist and neo-Latin poet .

Live and act

Filippo Beroaldo the Elder was a pupil of Francesco del Pozzo from Parma . From 1472 he was a teacher of rhetoric and poetry in Bologna, then in Parma, Paris and Milan. In 1479 he returned to Bologna and was there from 1503 as successor to Alberto Parisi also Cancelliere. His friends included Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Konrad Mutian .

His most famous works include his annotations on the Virgil commentary by Servius (1482) and his commentary on Asinus aureus , that is to say on the Metamorphoses of Apuleius (1500). He published text editions on Plautus , Sallust , Cicero , Virgil , Suetonius , Aulus Gellius , Pliny the Younger and Lucan, among others .

Fonts (selection)

  • Caii Plinii Secundi Historiae naturalis libri 27, cum brevibus notis. Parma 1476; Treviso 1479; Paris, 1516.
  • Annotationes in commentarios Servii Virgilianos. Bologna, Heinrich of Cologne 1482; Florence, Antonio Miscomini 1489, (online copy) of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek .
  • Annotationes in varios authores antiquos. Bologna, Venice 1489; Brescia 1496.
  • Orationes. Paris 1490, ibid. et Lyon 1492; Bologna 1491.
  • Properties Opera cum commentariis. Bologna, Venice 1495; Paris 1604.
  • Declamatio philosophi, medici, oratoris, de exceilentia disceptantium. Bologna 1497.
  • Opusculum eruditum, quo continentur declamatio Philosophi Medici Oratoris De excellentia disceptatiu. Et libellus de optimo Statu et principe ... Bologna, Bened. Hectoris December 1497.
  • Libellus quo Septem sapientium Sententiae discutiuntur. Imprint Bonaniae per Benedictum Hectoris. December 1498.
  • De felicitate opusculum. Bologna, Franciscus dictus Plato de Benedictis 1495, (online copy) of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ; (Online copy) of the Wolfenbüttel digital library .
  • Oratio Proverbiorum . Bononiae, Bened. Hectoris, December 1499.
  • Declamatio Lepidissima Ebriosi Scortatoris Aleatoris de vitiositate Disceptantium . Imprint Bononiae, a Benedicto Hectoris, 1499; Bologna 1499; Strasbourg , Paris, 1505.
  • Commentarii Quaestionum Tusculanarum editi a Philippo Beroaldo. Bartolomeo Zani, Bologna 1499, complete catalog of incandescent prints : GW 6900 ; (Online copy) from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek .
  • Orationes Multifariae et Poemata . Bononiae, Benedictus Bibliopola Hectoris, November 1500.
  • Lucius Apulleius de Asino Aureo cum Commentariis Philippi Beroaldi. Benedetto the Elder, Bologna 1500, complete catalog of incandescent prints : GW 2305 .
  • Symbola Pythagorae moraliter explicata . Bononiae, Bened. Hectoris, 1503.
  • Orationes, Praefationes, Praelectiones, etc. Paris 1505, 1507, 1509.
  • Declamatio ebriosi, scorialoris, el aleatoris. Paris 1556.
    • Translation in verse by Gilbert Damalis : Procès des trois frères. Lyon, 1558.
  • Translation into elegiac distiches by Leonardo Bruni , De duobus Amantibus Giascanio et Sigismunda, filia Tancretii. Without place and year.

Text output

  • Lucia A. Ciapponi (Ed.): Filippo Beroaldo the Elder: Annotationes Centum (= Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies , Vol. 131). Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Binghamton 1995, ISBN 0-86698-138-1 (critical edition)

literature

  • Herbert Jaumann: Handbook of scholarly culture in the early modern period . Volume 1. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, New York 2004; P. 93 ISBN 3-11-016069-2 .
  • Myron Gilmore:  Beroaldo, Filippo, senior. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 9:  Berengario – Biagini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1967, pp. 382-384.
  • Anna Rose: Filippo Beroaldo the Elder and his contribution to the Properz tradition (= contributions to antiquity , vol. 156). Saur, Munich 2001
  • Konrad Krautter: Philological method and humanistic existence. Filippo Beroaldo and his commentary on Apuleius' golden donkey. Fink, Munich 1971.
  • Konrad Krautter: Angelo Poliziano as a critic of Filippo Beroaldo. In: Res publica litterarum , Vol. 4, 1981, pp. 315-330.
  • Johann Ramminger: 'Humanitatis professor humanus esto': Beroaldo on Perotti. In: Studi umanistici Piceni , Vol. 27, 2007, pp. 39–60 ( online, PDF )

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personal data
SURNAME Beroaldo, Filippo the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philologist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1453
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH 1505
Place of death Bologna