Masuccio Salernitano
Masuccio Salernitano (also Tommaso Guardati von Salerno ; * around 1410 in Salerno ; † after 1475 there ) was an Italian writer .
Masuccio Salernitano lived in the second half of the 15th century at the Aragonese royal court in Naples and is famous as the author of Novellino (Naples 1476, Milan 1483, Venice 1484 and 1492), a collection of 50 short stories, which, a side piece by Giovanni Boccaccios " Decamerons ", lifelike, often daring moral paintings from the society of that time and therefore offer the researcher for Italian art, customs and local history of the 14th and 15th centuries an invaluable source. It is dedicated to Hippolyta of Aragon .
literature
- F. De Propris: GUARDATI (Guardato), Tommaso (Masuccio Salernitano). In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 60: Grosso – Guglielmo da Forlì. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2003.
Fonts
- Novellino: Renaissance novels from Naples and southern Italy . With an introduction by Gianni Celati and a copy by Alice Vollenweider . [From the Ital. by Hanns Floerke. New through by Maja Pflug]. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2000. ISBN 3-8031-2384-4 .
- Ladies and prostitutes: erotic novels from ancient times . Illustrated by Otto Clevé . Gütersloh: Bertelsmann- [Lesering]; Stuttgart: European book u. Phonoclub; Vienna: Buchgemeinschaft Donauland, 1968. Hamburg: Kala Verl., 1963. (Contains from Masuccio: The Pants of St. Grypho, The Entry March, The Monk and the Virgin, Marchesa and the Monk)
Web links
- Literature by and about Masuccio Salernitano in the catalog of the German National Library
- "Shakespeare in Love" —The Supressed Italian Connection [ sic ]
- Short biography of Masuccio (in Italian).
- Il Novellino, Novella XXXIII , by Masuccio Salernitano - Italian text (registration required).
- Il Novellino , by Masuccio Salernitano (text in Italian as PDF file)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Masuccio Salernitano |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guardati, Tommaso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1410 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salerno |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1475 |
| Place of death | Salerno |