Giovanni Conversini da Ravenna
Giovanni Conversini da Ravenna (also Giovanni da Ravenna ; * 1343 in Buda , † 1408 in Venice ) was an early Italian humanist .
Life
He was considered the humanist of the city of Padua, was born the son of Ludwig I's personal physician in Hungary and was a friend and student of Francesco Petrarch . From 1397 he taught as a rhetoric professor at the Universities of Florence and Padua (together with Gasparino Barzizza and Lorenzo Valla, among others ). His students included Guarino da Verona , Niccolò Niccoli , Poggio Bracciolini and Leonardo Bruni .
Works
- Story: "Violate pudicicie narracio"
- De dilectione regnantium (1399): "Optimos res publica ductores, non pulchros, exigit."
- De primo eius introitu ad aulam (1385) (he comments on the character of courtiers as power-hungry salivators)?
Text editions and translations
- Benjamin G. Kohl, James Day (Ed.): Giovanni Conversini da Ravenna: Two Court Treatises. "De primo eius introitu ad aulam", "De dilectione regnantium". Fink, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7705-2270-2 (critical edition with English translation)
- Diego Rossi (ed.): Due epistole di Giovanni Conversini da Ravenna (= Romanist texts and studies 3). Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1988, ISBN 3-487-07965-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Giovanni Conversini da Ravenna in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ravenna, Giovanni Conversini there |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ravenna, Giovanni there |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | early Italian humanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1343 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Buda |
DATE OF DEATH | 1408 |
Place of death | Venice |