Matteo Palmieri
Matteo Palmieri (born January 13, 1406 in Florence , † April 13, 1475 ibid) was a politician, poet and historian.
Life
Palmieri came from Florence and studied with famous humanists, his teachers were Zomino da Pistoia (called 'Sozomenus'), Ambrogio Traversati and Carlo Marsuppini. He held high offices in the service of the republic and served Cosimo da Medici as ambassador. He wrote his literary works in both Latin and Italian and also had knowledge of Greek. His work “De temporibus” covers the period from 449 to 1449 and is one of the first attempts to write a story of the Middle Ages. Palmieri wrote a story of Florence ('La historia florentina') and a story about the war with Pisa in 1406.
In the Italian book "Libro della vita civile" he examined the qualities that are necessary to lead a family, to run a state and to be a good citizen. Vespasiano da Bisticci mentions his life's work in his 'Vite' (1483) and praises him as a wise scholar. His "Vitae civitas" (transl. "City of Life" ) is a long poem in the footsteps of Dante Alighieri , which he wrote in the vernacular like him and composed in thirds. At Palmieri's request, it was not published until after his death in 1529. In doing so, he was posthumously suspected of heresy because of his statements about the nature of the soul, since he undermined the church's doctrine of damnation. Against the background of these theses, the painter Francesco Botticini made a picture where saints and angels join in a row, but this was unusual. To the left and right of the event, where the heavenly host moves around the Assumption of Mary on three levels, Palmieri and his wife Niccolosa are inserted as donor figures.
The Ricordi fiscali are a record of the republic's fiscal measures from the inauguration of Catasto in 1427 and its own investments in public debt, and are a major source of the history of urban finances and internal affairs in Florence in the Quattrocento.
Works
- Vita civile, edizione critica a cura di G. Belloni. Florence 1982.
literature
- George M. Carpetto: The humanism of Matteo Palmieri. Rome 1984.
- Claudio Finzi: Matteo Palmieri - Dalla "Vita civile" alla "Citta di vita". Milan 1984.
- Alessandra Mita Ferrara: Matteo Palmieri - Una biografia intellettuale. Genoa 2005.
- Elena Valeri: Palmieri, Matteo. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 80: Ottone I-Pansa. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2014.
Web links
- Dizionario degli storici di Firenze Contribution by Lorenzo Tanzini (University of Florence)
- Publications on Matteo Palmieri in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
- Portrait bust of Matteo Palmieri , by Antonio Rossellino .
- Palmieri, Matteo. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ^ Vespasiano da Bisticci: The life of the Florentine Matteo Palmieri . Great men and women of the Renaissance. Ed .: Bernd Roeck. Beck, Munich 1995, p. 278 f .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palmieri, Matteo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | humanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1406 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1475 |
| Place of death | Florence |