Galeotto Marzio

Galeotto Marzio (heavy person in the middle)

Galeotto Marzio (* around 1427 in Narni ; † 1497 ) was an Italian humanist , historian , doctor and astronomer during the Renaissance .

Life

Marzio studied medicine in Padua and Ferrara , where he made a lifelong friendship with Janus Pannonius . At his invitation he came to Hungary in 1461 and became a supporter of Janus' uncle, Bishop Johann Vitez . He then taught in Padua and Bologna and in 1465 returned to Hungary together with Pannonius, who was returning from an Italian embassy. Here he wrote his medical work "De homine" . Marzio was a teacher at the Universitas Istropolitana in Pressburg and left Hungary around the time of the conspiracy against Matthias Corvinus (1471–1472), whose first librarian and chronicler he was.

In Venice he was arrested by the Inquisition for his work "De incognitis vulgo" , from which he was released in 1478 thanks to the mediation of Lorenzo de 'Medici and Matthias'. Marzio was in a heated argument with Francesco Filelfo and Giorgio Merula . His writings contained new thoughts, particularly on astronomy , an area in which he is sometimes referred to as the forerunner of Nicolaus Copernicus . Among his students in Bologna was the future Bishop Miklós Báthory . The Bibliotheca Corviniana was famous throughout Europe with over 2,500 books.

literature

• Galeotto Marzio e l'umanesimo italiano ed europeo. Atti del III Convegno di studio, Narni 8-11 November 1975 . Centro di Studi Storici di Narni, Narni 1983
• ER Briggs: Un pionnier de la pensée libre au XVe Siècle: Galeotto Marzio da Narni (1427? –1497?) , In: Aspects du libertinisme au XVIe siècle. Actes du Colloque international de Sommières , J. Vrin, Paris 1974, pp. 75-84
• Cesare Vasoli, Note su Galeotto Marzio , in: 'Acta Litteraria Academiae Scientiarium Hungaricae 19, 1-2 (1977), pp. 51-69, again in ders., La cultura delle corti , Capelli, Bologna 1980, pp. 38– 63
• Gabriella Miggiano: Galeotto Marzio da Narni. Profilo biobibliografico , in Il Bibliotecario 32 (1992), pp. 45-96; 33-34 (1992), pp. 67-156; 35: 61-108 (1993); 36-37 (1993), pp. 83-191; 38, pp. 27-122 (1993)
• Gabriella Miggiano: "Etiam tacente Christo": l'eresia laica di Galeotto Marzio , in: István Monok / Péter Sárközy (eds.), La civiltà ungherese e il cristianesimo. A magyar müvelödés és a kereszténység. Atti del IVº Congresso Internazionale di Studi Ungheresi, Roma-Napoli, 9-14 September 1996 , Volume I, Nemzetközi Magyar Filológiai Társaság, Budapest-Szeged 1998, pp. 208-226
• Gabriella Miggiano: Grammatica e scienza negli itinerari italo-ungheresi di Galeotto Marzio , in: Sante Graciotti / Amedeo Di Francesco (ed.), L'eredità classica in Italia e Ungheria fra tardo Medioevo e primo Rinascimento , Il Calamo, Rome 2001, p 207-240
• Gabriella Miggiano: Galeotto Marzio e Pierre Cuppé ai due poli di una sfida alla tradizionie , in: Rivista di studi ungheresi 4 (2005), pp. 51-66
• Gian Maria Anselmi: L'età dell'Umanesimo e del Rinascimento: le radici italiane dell'Europa moderna , Carocci, Rome 2008, here especially chap. 6: Galeotto Marzio fra Umanesimo bolognese ed europeo (pp. 57–103)