Pellegrino Prisciani

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Pellegrino Prisciani (* 1435 ; † 1510 ) was an Italian humanist , university teacher, historian, antiquarian ("antiquarian") and astrologer .

Prisciani belonged to the influential group of scholars at the court of Ferrara under Leonello d'Este and Borso d'Este .

Coin of Pellegrino Prisciani, from Sperandio

He served the Estonians as archivist , diplomat and advisor. He was ambassador in Venice and at the Curia in Rome and he administered the post of podestà in Reggio . Prisciani wrote a history of Ferrara . He was important for the Estonians as an astrologer, since astrology played an extraordinarily large role at this royal court as well as at other courts of the time. It is believed that the astrological program of the monthly pictures in the Palazzo Schifanoia was developed by him.

Patrick Gautier Dalche has researched that between 1480 and 1490 Priscani copied a section of a map that corresponds almost to the last detail (including the color palette) with the Tabula Peutingeriana . The card he called Cosmographia was in an anteroom of the Episcopal Palace of Padua.

Most of his writings were not published, but are only accessible as manuscripts in northern Italian archives.

Works

  • Le historie Ferrariensis

literature

  • G. Beroni: La biblioteca estense e la coltura ferrarese ai tempi del duca Ercole I. (1471-1505) . Torino 1903.
  • WL Gundersheimer: Ferrara. The Style of a Renaissance Despotism . Princeton University Press, 1973.
  • Benet Salway: 'The Nature and Genesis of the Peutinger Map'. In: Imago Mundi . Volume 57, No. 2, pp. 119-135 ( doi : 10.1080 / 03085690500094867 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kornelia Klettke: Ferrara and his royal court as an early modern meeting place and focal point of European identity finding, in: Cornelia Klettke and Ralf Pröve (eds.): Focal points of cultural encounters on the way to a modern Europe. Identities and Alterities of a Continent , Writings of the Early Modern Center Vol. 1, V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2011, pp. 71-105 Preview
personal data
SURNAME Prisciani, Pellegrino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian humanist, historian, archaeologist and astrologer
DATE OF BIRTH 1435
DATE OF DEATH 1510