Giovanni Rucellai
Giovanni Rucellai , also Giovanni di Bernardo or Giovanni II. Rucellai (born October 20, 1475 in Florence , † April 3, 1525 in Rome ) was an Italian poet .
Giovanni Rucellai was the grandson of the banker and art patron of the same name Giovanni Rucellai (Giovanni di Paolo) and son of Bernardo Rucellai . As a relative of the Medici , he was locked up in their exile and lived in Rome , where he wrote most of his works. With the Medici he returned to Florence in 1512 and received several honorable offices, but after the elevation of his cousin Leo X to the papal chair, he resigned in order to enter the clergy . Leo employed him at his court and later sent him as nuncio to Francis I. Leo's death (1521) took away his hope of the cardinal's hat ; but he became governor of the Castel Sant'Angelo under Clement VII , and he died in this position in 1525.
His tragedy Rosmunda (Siena 1525) is next to the Sofonisba Trissinos the oldest regular Italian tragedy and is characterized by ornate construction. His Orestes, on the other hand, is little more than a watered-down imitation of Iphigenia by Euripides . His fame as a poet is based primarily on his didactic poem Le api (first o. O. 1539, Venice 1539 and more often, best Padua 1718, Milan 1826), a free copy and expansion of the 4th book of Georgica Virgil and one of the best Poems of its kind in Italian literature . Ruccellai's complete works were published in Padua in 1772.
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| SURNAME | Rucellai, Giovanni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1475 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1525 |
| Place of death | Rome |