Scipione Ammirato

Scipione Ammirato in a portrait by Giuseppe Zocchi .

Scipione Ammirato (born October 7, 1531 in Lecce , † January 11, 1601 in Florence ) was an Italian historian .

Life

Scipione Ammirato came from a patrician family from Lecce in the Kingdom of Naples , which originally came from Tuscany . His father chose him for the career of a lawyer, but his literary interests, which he pursued during his stay in Naples from 1547 to 1551, dissuaded him. He entered the service of the Church and resided for some time in Venice , later he entered the service of Pope Pius IV. In 1569 he went to Florence, where Duke Cosimo I became his patron. He let him live in the Medici Palace on the condition that he write a history of Florence . This Istorie Fiorentine is the work that made him famous. During his lifetime, however, only a first part was published in 1560, which contains the history of Florence up to 1434. The remaining 15 books were published in 1641 by Ammirato's adoptive son, who also got a new edition of the first part with his own additions (1647). In 1595 he became canon of the Florentine Cathedral , after having completed his doctorate in theology at the age of almost 65. Other works by Scipione Ammirato are commentaries on Tacitus , in which he led the political discussion of Machiavelli's ideas , and genealogies of the families of Florence and Naples.

Works (selection)

• Scipione Ammirato: Scipionis Amirati ... Dissertationes politicae siue Discursus in C. Cornelium Tacitum: nuper ex Italico in Latinorum versi, & cum toto rei politicae studiosorum orbe communicati quibus praemissa sunt ex eodem Tacito excerptae Digressiones politicae . impensis loannis Theobaldi Schönvvetteri, Helenopoli 1609 (Latin, google.it ).
• Scipione Ammirato: Scipionis Amirati ... Dissertationes politicæ, siue discursus in C. Cornelium Tacitum, politicam doctrinam apprime illustrantes, nuper ex Italico in Latinum versi, & cum toto rei politicæ studiosorum orbe communicati. Adiunctæ sunt Digressiones politicæ à Christophoro Pflugio ... Accessere ob argumenti similitudinem, summamque operis elegantiam De regis, ac regni institutione libri 3 ... typis Nicolai Hoffmanni, Francofurti 1618 (Latin, google.it ).

literature

• Umberto Congedo, La vita e le opere di Scipione Ammirato (notizie e ricerche), 1904, Vecchi, Trani
• Eduard Fueter : History of modern historiography , Munich and Berlin 1911. P. 132-134. ( Digitized version )
• Rodolfo De Mattei:  AMMIRATO, SCIPIONE. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 3:  Ammirato – Arcoleo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1961, pp. 1-4.
• Rodolfo De Mattei, Varia fortuna di Scipione Ammirato; Opera a stampa di Scipione Ammirato; Codici di Scipione Ammirato , in "Studi salentini", 8 (1960), pp. 352-407.
• L. Scarabelli, Di Scipione Ammirato e delle sue opere, introduzione alle Istorie fiorentine , Torino, 1853, pp. 7-42.

Web link

• Publications by and about Scipione Ammirato in the Opac der Regesta Imperii