Giovanni Andrea Bussi

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Giovanni Andrea (de) Bussi , also Ghjuvan Andria di Bussi , (born July 14, 1417 in Vigevano , † February 4, 1475 in Rome ) was an Italian bishop , humanist and first librarian of the papal library .

Life

In 1451 Bussi entered the service of Pope Nikolaus V. From 1458 to 1464 he was papal secretary and close confidante of Cardinal Nikolaus von Kues .

In 1461 he was appointed Bishop of Accia in Corsica by Pope Pius II , and in 1464 as Vicar General "in spiritualibus et pontificalibus" of the Archdiocese of Genoa, due to the incapacity of his bishop. In July 1466 he was appointed Bishop of Aléria . In 1471/72 he was appointed first librarian and secretary of the papal library. He was succeeded in 1475 by Bartolomeo Platina .

Bussi published numerous writings by classical Latin authors for the printers Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim since 1468, e.g. B. 1469 Livius Andronicus and the Noctes Atticae by Aulus Gellius , 1470 the Historia naturalis by Pliny the Elder. Elderly, then Virgil, Ovid and Titus Livius ' Ab urbe condita , and enriched the Vatican library with many classical manuscripts.

Fonts and editions (selection)

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero , Epistolae ad familiares , Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, Rome 1469
  • Aulus Gellius , Noctes Atticae , Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, Rome 1469
  • Pliny the Elder , Historia naturalis , Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, Rome 1470
  • Apuleius , Asinus aureus , Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, Rome 1471
  • Opera , Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, Rome 1471
  • Biblia latina , Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner 1475
  • Prefazioni alle edizioni di Sweynheym e Pannartz prototipografici romani , M. Miglio 1978

literature

  • Martin Honecker : Nikolaus von Cues and the Greek language. In addition to an appendix: Giovanni Andrea dei Bussi's eulogy. C. Winter University Press, Heidelberg 1938.
  • Massimo Miglio:  Bussi, Giovanni Andrea. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 15:  Buffoli-Caccianemici. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1972, pp. 565-572.
  • Kurt Flasch : Philosophy has a history. Vol. I: Historical Philosophy - Description of a Way of Thinking. Frankfurt / M. 2003, p. 135 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan A. Aertsen, Andreas Speer (ed.): Spiritual life in the 13th century. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, p. 78; Hans Gerhard Senger: Ludus sapientiae. Brill, Leiden 2002, p. 380
personal data
SURNAME Bussi, Giovanni Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bussi, Ghjuvan Andria di
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian humanist and prelate
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1417
PLACE OF BIRTH Vigevano
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1475
Place of death Rome