Giovanni Conversini da Ravenna

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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

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personal data
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