Maffeo Vegio
Maffeo Vegio ( Latinized Mapheus Vegius ; * 1407 in Lodi , † 1458 in Rome ) was an Italian poet and author of Renaissance humanism .
Vegio studied in Milan and Pavia and then went to Rome, where he belonged to the papal court under Martin V and Eugene IV . With Aeneidos liber XIII he wrote a “thirteenth book” as a supplement to Virgil's Aeneid (written in Pavia in 1428) and the mythological epics Astyanax and Vellus Aureum . His pedagogical treatise De educatione liberorum (1445–1448), in which he combined humanistic ideas with Christian ideals, was best known . Vegio also wrote books on archeology and etymology .
Editions and translations
- Philalethes . Johannes Regiomontanus, Nuremberg around 1474-75. ( Digitized version )
- Vellus Aureum - The golden fleece (1431) . Introduction, critical edition and translation by RF Glei and M. Köhler. (= Bochum Classical Studies Colloquium; 38). WVT, Trier 1998, ISBN 3-88476-325-3
- Bernd Schneider (Ed.): The Aeneissupplement of the Maffeo Vegio . Acta Humaniora (VCH), Weinheim 1985, ISBN 3-527-17536-9 (critical edition with translation)
- Mafei Vegii Laudensis Aeneidos Liber XIII: The thirteenth book of the Aeneis , in: Edith Binder, Gerhard Binder (ed.): Aeneis. Latin / German (= Reclam library). Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-010668-6 , pp. 840–883 (preface pp. 835–839)
- Anne Stanislaus Sullivan (Ed.): Maphei Vegii Laudensis De Educatione Liberorum Et Eorum Claris Moribus Libri Sex. A Critical Text of Books IV – VI. The Catholic University of America, Washington (DC) 1936
- Michael CJ Putnam (Ed.): Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2004, ISBN 0-674-01483-9 (contains: Aeneidos liber XIII , Astyanax , Vellus aureum , Antonias . Latin text and English translation)
literature
- Socrate Corvi (ed.): Studi su Maffeo Vegio . Archivio storico lodigiano, Lodi 1959
- Achim Krümmel: Vegius, Mapheus (Vegio, Maffeo). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 12, Bautz, Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9 , Sp. 1186-1188.
- Agostino Sottili: On the biography of Giuseppe Brivios and Maffeo Vegios , in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 4 (1967), pp. 219–242
Web links
- Maffeo Vegio in the complete catalog of incandescent prints (GW number VEGIMAP)
- Maffeo Vegio (ital.)
- Proof of digitized texts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vegio, Maffeo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vegius, Mapheus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet and author of humanistic Latin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1407 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lodi |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1458 |
| Place of death | Rome |