Hans Vintler

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Hans Vintler (* 14th century , † 1418 / 19 ) was a Tyrolean ducal bailiff and Messenger and writer. He came from the family or the noble family of the Vintler . He wrote the moral didactic poem Die Pluemen der Tugent , a translation and expansion of the Italian poetry Fiore di virtù by Tommaso Gozzadini.

Life

Hans Vintler was the third son of Hans Vintler from the Vintler family in Bozen . His uncle was Niklaus Vintler (1345-1413), the highest bailiff of the County of Tyrol . In 1396, Duke Leopold IV of Habsburg granted his family a place of jurisdiction , according to which any legal matters were to be negotiated exclusively in Bozen am Obstplatz .

Hans Vintler was the nursing court in Stein am Ritten and bailiff in the service of the Habsburg Duke Friedrich IV. As such, he was, among other things, ambassador in northern Italy , namely to the Doge of Venice .

Vintler was married to Dorothea, daughter of the ducal mint master of Merano , Friedrich von Hauenstein . The marriage remained childless. In 1407 he joined the aristocratic defense alliance Falkenbund with other members of his family . In 1411 he completed work on his translation and expansion of the poem Fiore di virtù . In 1415, he received for his family by the Holy Roman King Sigismund of Luxembourg , the award of a coat of arms improvement by the family coat of arms a golden crown as a crest could be added.

Hans Vintler died between December 1418 and August 1419.

The flowers of virtue

Hans Vintler translated the moral didactic poem Fiore di virtù by the Italian author Tommaso Gozzadini , written around 1320 . This spread throughout Europe and has been translated several times. He translated the template into German and also made changes and additions, so that his text was 10,172 long rhyming verses . He worked in verses by other authors, especially the Doctors of the Church and Greek and Roman philosophers . The Pluemen der Tugent is about virtues and vices . Vintler finished his work in 1411.

Vintler's writing first appeared as a print in Augsburg in 1486 . An incunabulum from that year and seven manuscripts have survived to this day . They have been extensively provided with illustrations, some of which are humorous.

1874 a complete edition appeared the flowers of virtue by Ignaz Zingerle . This was published again as a reprint in 2011 .

literature

  • Ignaz Zingerle : Hans Vintler . Vienna 1871. Reprint: hansebooks 2011, ISBN 978-3-7428-8202-8
  • Franz-Josef Schweitzer: Virtue and vice in the illustrated didactic poetry of the late Middle Ages: studies of Hans Vintler's flowers of virtue and of the devil's net . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1993, ISBN 978-3-487-09707-7
  • René Wetzel: The wall paintings of Runkelstein Castle and the Bolzano family of the Vintler: Literature and art in the context of a Tyrolean rising family of the 14th / 15th centuries. Century. Thèse d'habilitation, University of Friborg 1999.
  • Bolzano Castles Foundation (ed.): Hans Vintler and Runkelstein Castle: War, Usury, Superstition . Athesia-Verlag, Bozen 2011, ISBN 978-88-8266-787-0
  • Max Siller (Ed.): Hans Vintler: The flowers of virtue (1411). Symposium after 600 years . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7030-0814-6
  • Helmut Rizzolli: A poet in the Bilderburg; Hans Vintler and his 'Flowers of Virtue'. In: Foundation Bozener Schlösser (Hrsg.): The picture castle Runkelstein: Preserved, lost, rediscovered . Athesia-Verlag, Bozen 2018. ISBN 978-88-6839-373-1 , pp. 391-414.

Web links

Commons : Hans Vintler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Fiore di virtù  - Sources and full texts (Italian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d René Wetzel: The wall paintings of Runkelstein Castle and the Bolzano family of the Vintlers: Literature and art in the context of a Tyrolean rising family in the 14th and 15th centuries. Century . Thèse d'habilitation, University of Friborg, 1999, pp. 213–220 online (PDF) , accessed on August 8, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d Hans Vintler and the Flowers of Virtue: War - Usury - Superstition , www.muenzenwoche.de on June 23, 2011, accessed on August 8, 2019
  3. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 420, no.893 .
  4. ↑ a b Publishing information of the Wagner University Press on: Max Siller: Hans Vintler: Die Blumen der Tugend (1411) , accessed on August 8, 2019
  5. ↑ a b Oswald Zingerle : Vintler, Hans , in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1896), accessed on August 8, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. 50, April 2019, p. 204, at www.cambridge.org , accessed on August 8, 2019
  7. ↑ Elmar M. Lorey : How the werewolf came among the witches , accessed on August 8, 2019
  8. ↑ Publishing information from the Wagner University Press on: Hans Vintler: Die Blumen der Tugend (1411) , accessed on August 8, 2019. There further: “There are two codices in Vienna, one each in Stockholm, Gotha and Melk; a text witness is kept by the Tyrol University and State Library in Innsbruck and a particularly beautiful edition is kept in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum. "
  9. ↑ Ignaz Zingerle: The pluemen of the virtues of Hans Vintler . 1874, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  10. ↑ Hans Vintler: The Pluemen the Tugent [reprint of the original edition of 1874]. University of Innsbruck, 2011, ISBN 978-3-226-00581-3
personal data
SURNAME Vintler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tyrolean ducal bailiff, envoy and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1418 or 1419