Marcus Hieronymus Vida

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Marcus Hieronymus Vida

Marcus Hieronymus Vida (Italian Marco Girolamo Vida ; * 1485 in Cremona , † September 27, 1566 in Alba ) was an Italian poet and humanist .

Life

Vida was born in Cremona, the son of impoverished nobles. Vida then came to Rome , where he was ordained a priest around 1510 . He joined Giovanni de 'Medici, who soon became Pope Leo X was elected. Vida wrote for him Latin poems about the game of chess and the silkworm and began to write the poem "Christias" about the life of Christ. The work was published in six volumes in 1535 and was very successful. Under Pope Clement VII , Vida became Bishop of Alba (1532) and later participated in the Council of Trent . Vida was admired for his clear thoughts and elegant style. He also wrote an didactic poem on poetry (1527), mainly concerned with Virgil . At the end of his long life, Vida dealt with more religious subjects.

Works

Cremonensium orationes III , frontispiece, 1550
  • De arte poetica , 1517 (reprint Munich 1976)
  • Christias , 1535
  • Felsinais
  • Cremonensium orationes III ( la ). Giovanni Muzio & Bernardino Locheta, Cremona 1550.

Editions and translations

  • Eva von Contzen et al. (Ed.): Marcus Hieronymus Vida: Christias (= Bochum Classical Studies Colloquium , volumes 91 and 92). 2 volumes. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2013, ISBN 978-3-86821-435-2 and ISBN 978-3-86821-436-9 (critical edition, German translation and commentary)
  • Agnieszka Paulina Lew (Ed.): Marcus Hieronymus Vida: Poeticorum libri tres . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 9783631580820
  • Mario A. Di Cesare (Ed.): The Game of Chess. Marco Girolamo Vida's Scacchia ludus. De Graaf, Nieuwkoop 1975, ISBN 90-6004-335-9 (Latin text and English translation)

literature

  • Mario Di Cesare: Vida's Christiad and Vergilian epic. New York / London 1964
  • Susanne Rolfes: The Latin poetics of Marco Girolamo Vida and their reception by Julius Caesar Scaliger (= contributions to antiquity , volume 149). Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-598-77698-5

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personal data
SURNAME Vida, Marcus Hieronymus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vida, Marco Girolamo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1485
PLACE OF BIRTH Cremona
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1566
Place of death Alba