Pietro Paolo Vergerio (humanist)

Pietro Paolo Vergerio the Elder (also Pierpaolo Vergerio , Latinized Petrus Paulus Vergerius , also Vergerius Justinopolitanus ; * July 23, 1370 in Koper , † July 8, 1444 in Budapest ) was an Italian humanist , medic, lawyer and statesman.

Vergerio studied grammar in Padua (1385). A year later he went to Florence for further studies , where he befriended Coluccio Salutati ; 1388-90 Vergerio taught in Bologna . In 1398 he temporarily went back to Florence to study Greek with Manuel Chrysoloras . When he left Padua for the Curia in March 1405 , he was a Master of Arts , a doctor of medicine and both rights ( jurisprudence and canon law ). The most important work of those years was De ingenuis moribus et liberalibus studis (1402), the first Renaissance script that proposed a comprehensive educational program and was read well into the 17th century. In 1406 Vergerio went to Rome , where he became papal secretary and then envoy to the Council of Constance (1414-18). Vergerio was then secretary to Emperor Sigismund I. Vergerio also dealt with church issues in his writings; he wrote about Francesco Petrarca , whose Africa he brought out, a comedy, poetry and many letters that were published after his death. Vergerio is considered by some to be the founder of modern education .

Text output

• John M. McManamon (Ed.): Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder and Saint Jerome. An Edition and Translation of Sermones per Sancto Hieronymo. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe 1999, ISBN 0-86698-219-1 (critical edition with English translation)
• Craig W. Kallendorf (Ed.): Pier Paolo Vergerio: The Character and Studies Befitting a Free-Born Youth. In: Craig W. Kallendorf (Ed.): Humanist Educational Treatises. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2002, ISBN 0-674-00759-X , pp. 2–91 (Latin text and English translation)

literature

• John M. McManamon: Pierpaolo Vergerio the Elder. The Humanist as Orator (= Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies , Vol. 163). Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Tempe 1996, ISBN 0-86698-204-3
• Ansgar Frenken:  Vergerio, Pier / Pietro Paolo (the elder). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 1572-1576.

Web links

• Literature by and about Pietro Paolo Vergerio in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Pietro Paolo Vergerio (humanist) in the complete catalog of incunabula