Paolo Giovio
Paolo Giovio ( Latinized Paulus Iovius ; born April 19, 1483 in Como ; † December 11, 1552 in Florence ) was an Italian historian, biographer, Catholic bishop and doctor. His brother Benedetto Giovio (1471–1545) was also a historian.
Life
Paolo Giovio studied philosophy in Padua and medicine in Pavia , practiced first in Como, then as a doctor in Milan , went to Rome in 1517 , where he was appointed Bishop of Nocera by Clement VII .
As early as 1546, three years after the death of Nicolaus Copernicus , he wrote a biography of the astronomer.
Giovio is the earliest biographer of Leonardo da Vinci , from him the first written hymns of praise for the famous painter come from.
In his villa in Borgo Vico on Lake Como, Paolo Giovio had an important collection of pictures with portraits of statesmen and war heroes, including two pictures of Bronzinos , Andrea Doria as Neptune and Cosimo I de 'Medici in armor .
Works
- Historiarum sui temporis libri XLV, the history of its time 1494–1547 (Italian by Domenichi, Florence 1551–53, 2 volumes).
- Vitae virorum illustrium (written after 1527; Italian by Ludovico Domenichi, Florence 1549–47, 7 volumes), in which Giovio - beginning with Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas - offers portraits of specialist writers and literary figures. T. also knew personally, such as Ariost , Baldassare Castiglione , Niccoló Machiavelli , Jacopo Sannazaro and Vittoria Colonna .
- Litterae : Letters, ed. by Ludovico Domenichi ( Lettere volgare di Paolo Giovio , Venice 1560).
Editions and translations
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Pauli Iovii opera. Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Rome
- Volume 6: Pauli Iovii vitarum pars prior (Leonis decimi, Hadriani sexti, Pompei Columnae cardinalis vitae). Edited by Michele Cataudella, 1987.
- Volume 8: Paolo Giovio: Gli elogi degli uomini illustri (letterati, artisti, uomini d'arme). Edited by Renzo Meregazzi, 1972.
- Franco Minonzio (Ed.): Paolo Giovio: Elogi degli uomini illustri. Einaudi, Turin 2006 (Italian translation).
- Kenneth Gouwens (Ed.): Paolo Giovio: Notable Men and Women of Our Time (= The I Tatti Renaissance Library , Volume 56). Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2013, ISBN 978-0-674-05505-6 (Latin text and English translation).
literature
- Giuseppe Chiesi: Paolo Giovio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 6, 2007 , accessed May 3, 2020 .
- TC Price Zimmermann: Paolo Giovio. The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1995, ISBN 978-8-848-81377-8
- TC Price Zimmermann: Giovio, Paolo. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 56: Giovanni di Crescenzio – Giulietti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2001.
Web links
- Literature by and about Paolo Giovio in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Paolo Giovio in the German Digital Library
- Publications by Paolo Giovio in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN)
- Standard entry in the Opac of the SBN
Individual evidence
- ↑ S. Partsch: Look me in the eye, Dürer! The art of the old masters. Munich 2018. p. 63.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giovio, Paolo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jovius, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian bishop and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1483 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Como , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1552 |
| Place of death | Florence , Italy |