Giovanni Battista Mascolo

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Giovanni Battista Mascolo (born June 14 or June 24, 1583 in Naples ; † July 20, 1656 there ) was a Jesuit and professor of philosophy.

His father wanted Giovanni Battista Mascolo as his older brother Alfonso jurisprudence studied. However, the fifteen year old joined the Jesuits in 1598 . Here, in addition to his rhetorical and exegetical skills, he primarily developed his lyrical talent. He taught rhetoric, exegesis and Hebrew literature for 17 years as a professor with the Jesuits . The plague of the year 1656/66 fell Giovanni Battista Mascolo victim.

In addition to his lyrical works, he published a calendar of saints for each day of the year. As a contemporary, he described the eruption of Vesuvius on December 16, 1631 in his work De incendio Vesuvii XVII Cal. Jan. 1631 from 1633. If 19th century authors valued the largely forgotten Jesuit as a poet at best, he is considered in the 21st century. Century primarily chronology critics as key witnesses. Today they link extensive speculations to his description of the Vesuvius eruption of 1631, as they would like to infer from the work that ancient Pompeii did not perish until this year, but until then had existed as the last flourishing Renaissance town in southern Italy. Nonetheless, Giovanni Battista Mascolo describes neither Pompeii nor Herculaneum as cities that have existed since antiquity and were only affected by the eruption in 1631, but instead cites the destruction of both in the Chronologia chapter as antiquity , referring the event to the year 81 instead of the year 79 as is usual today Dated AD. Contrary to the attempt of the chronology critics to collect it as the only testimony, there are many testimonies from the eruptions of the years 512, 685, 993, 1036, 1139, 1500. With the outbreak of 1631, the number rose to almost 100 of the sources otherwise not evaluated by chronology critics .

Works

  • Lyricorum sive odarum libri XVI. Apud Dominici Macarani, Naples 1625 ( digitized version ).
  • De incendio Vesuvii excitato XVII kal. January. anno trigesimo primo saeculi decimiseptimi libri X. Ex officina Secundini Roncalioli, Naples 1633 ( digitized version ).
  • Encomia coelitum digesta per singulos anni dies ... Apud Franciscum Sauium, Naples 1638 ( digitized ).
  • Gladius, ac pugio impietatis, sive persecutiones Ecclesiae cruentae ab idololatris, et haereticis. Ex Typographia Dominici Maccarani, Naples 1651.
  • Eruditarum lectionum veterum Patrum, libri acroamatici, sive medulla Patrum. 4 volumes. Apud Sauionos, Venice 1649–1660.

literature

  • Friedrich Harrer: The poet Joannes Baptista Masculus. In: Annual report on the Royal Lyceum and the Royal High School and the Latin School in Regensburg for the year 1851/52. 1852, pp. 2–12 ( digitized version ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Ioannis Baptistae Masculi ... de incendio Vesuvii excitato XVII kal. January. anno trigesimo primo saeculi decimiseptimi libri X. Ex officina Secundini Roncalioli, Naples 1633, pp. 9-11 of the chronological appendix ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Justus Roth : Vesuvius and the area around Naples. Hertz, Berlin 1857, p. 1 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Mascolo, Giovanni Battista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Masculus, Joannes Baptista; Masculus, Johannes Baptista; Masculus, Johannes Baptist; Masculus, Johann Baptist; Masculus, Joannes Baptist; Masculi, Gianbattista; Masculi, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1583
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1656
Place of death Naples