Marcantonio Sabellico

Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus, engraving from the Icones virorum illustrium by Jean-Jacques Boissard

Marcantonio Sabellico ( Marco Antonio Sabellico ; actually Coccio; * around 1436 in the Orsinian fort Vicovaro near Tivoli ; † 1506 in Venice ) was an Italian historian and librarian.

Life

Sabellico was born under the rule of the Orsini family in Vicovaro, the son of the impoverished aristocrat and blacksmith Giovanni Coccio. The father had served as a soldier under Roberto Orsini and was able to enable his son to train in Rome . Following the custom of his contemporaries, the young Coccio changed his name early on to Sabellico or Sabellicus, a more elegant form of the Sabinus designation of origin, which goes back to verse 255 in the third book of Virgil's Georgica .

Studied fine arts in Rome

During his studies in Rome, Sabellico was educated in the Casa Porcari, where he was a student of Julius Pomponius Laetus , one of the best experts on ancient Rome and founder of the Accademia Romana , who later also joined Sabellico. For a short time, Sabellico also had the opportunity to attend lectures by Gaspare Veronese (also: Gaspare da Verona) and Porcelio Pandone , known as Il Porcellio. He stopped doing this around 1470 when he became a pupil of Domizio Calderini .

In Rome, Sabellico began to write a large number of poems, which he later almost completely destroyed. As a member of the Roman Academy, he had to flee Rome - due to the trials against the Academy. Sabellico left Rome in 1472, accompanied by Angelo Fasolo , then Bishop of Feltre and Vicar of the Patriarch of Aquileia .

Teaching and publications

In 1473 Sabellico was invited to Udine as a professor and in the same year began to teach rhetoric there. In Udine, Sabellico devoted himself increasingly to science, especially dialectology and mathematics . When the plague reached Friuli in 1477 , Sabellico withdrew to the city of Tarcento .

Sabellico processed his experiences in the battle between the Ottoman and Venetian armies on the Isonzo in the short epics De caede Sontiaca and De incendio Carnico . When the Republic of Venice waged war against Ercole I d'Este in 1482 , Sabellico dedicated a history of the city of Aquileia to the leader of the Venetian forces, Giovanni Emo .

From 1484 on, there are increasing differences between Sabellico's own dates and those of other sources. What is certain, however, is that Sabellico taught rhetoric at the Scuola Grande di San Marco this year and took over the management of the Biblioteca Marciana . There he associated with Aldus Manutius . However, Sabellico gave up his position in the same year and moved to Verona .

In 1486 Sabellico began working on several large publications with historical and literary claims. His "Rerum venetarum ab urbe condita" (1486) was a founding story of Venice, the majority of which he is said to have written without doing research in Venice himself. The work was criticized by Giorgio Merula , among others , which ultimately led to Sabellico's break with Merula. In 1504 he completed the "Enneades sive rapsodiae historiarum" , a world history in 92 volumes and the first humanistic work of this kind. Sabellico doubted biblical miracles, which he regarded as classical myths .

Works

Dates of first publication known

Historiae rerum Venetiarum. (First published: Volume 1–32 in 1486, Volume 33 in 1487)
De Venetis magistratibus. (First published: 1488 with a dedication to Agostino Barbarigo )
De Latinae linguae reparatione. (First published: 1489)
De Venetae urbis situ et vetustate. (First published: 1492 with a dedication to Girolamo Donato )
Quinque complectens Enneades. (First publication: 1504 in Venice by Bernardino and Matteo Veneti)
Rapsodiae historiarum enneadum from orbe condito ad annum salutis humanae. (First published in 1504 with a dedication to Leonardo Loredan )

First publication dates unknown

De caede Sontiaca. (at least after 1477)
De incendio Carnico. (at least after 1477)
De vetustate Aquileiae et Foriiulii. (at least after 1482)
De praetoris officio. (includes dedication to Antonio Corner)
Genethliacon. (later included in the Poemata by Sabellico )
Oraculum . De Venetae urbis apparatu. (later included in the Poemata by Sabellico )
Poemata. (includes dedication to Giorgio Corner)

literature

Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, detto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, pp. 510-514.

Web links

Literature by and about Marcantonio Sabellico in the catalog of the German National Library
http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/desbillons/fedele/seite76.html

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, detto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, p. 510.
↑ ^a ^b ^c SABELLICO . In: Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti . Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1936 ( treccani.it ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Sabèllico. In: Enciclopedia Treccani. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, accessed April 12, 2020 (Italian).
↑ Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, ditto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, pp. 510-511.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, detto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, p. 511.
↑ Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, ditto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, p. 512.
↑ Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, ditto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, p. 514.

personal data
SURNAME	Sabellico, Marcantonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sabellico, Marco Antonio; Sabellique, Marc Antoine; Coccius, Marcus Antonius; Sabellicus, Mark Antony; Coccio, Marcantonio (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1436
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vicovaro Castle near Tivoli
DATE OF DEATH	1506
Place of death	Venice

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, detto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, p. 510.

[:1-2] SABELLICO . In: Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti . Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1936 ( treccani.it ).

[:2-3] Sabèllico. In: Enciclopedia Treccani. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, accessed April 12, 2020 (Italian).

[:3-4] Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, ditto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, pp. 510-511.

[:4-5] Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, detto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, p. 511.

[:5-6] Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, ditto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, p. 512.

[:6-7] Francesco Tateo: Coccio, Marcantonio, ditto Marcantonio Sabellico. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 26: Cironi-Collegno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982, p. 514.