Tito Livio Frulovisi

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Tito Livio Frulovisi (birth and death dates unknown; 1st half of the 15th century) was a humanist from Ferrara who grew up in Venice . He also wrote his first works there. These are several comedies that have been performed by school boys. They are considered to be the first example of this genre in Italy during the Renaissance period. At the beginning of the 1430s, Frulovisi traveled to Naples and from there returned to his native Ferrara. He found employment at the court of the ruling Este family and in 1434 he dedicated his dialogue on the governmental arts De Republica to them . He may also have written two other comedies while in Ferrara.

Tito Livio Frulovisi did not stay long in Ferrara, but traveled north across the Alps and probably stayed in England from 1436 . He found employment at the court of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester , for whom he wrote, among other things, a poem that extolled the duke's martial arts. There he also wrote a biography of Henry V , the Duke's deceased brother. This so-called Vita Henrici Quinti is the work for which Tito Livio Frulovisi is best known. For a long time it was considered to be the earliest biography of Henry V that was written after his death. However, it takes over large parts of the Vita et Gesta Henrici Quinti , whose author was long considered to be Thomas Elmham . The biography was translated into Italian by Pietro Candido Decembrio in the 15th century and into English by Henry VIII during the first years of reign .

Tito Livio Frulovisie probably left England in 1438 and returned to Italy. He lived in Milan for a while and traveled from there to Spain via France . Very little is known about his later life.

Works

  • Tito Livio Frulovisi: Oratoria . Edizione critica, traduzione e commento a cura di Cristina Cocco. Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010.
  • CW Previté-Orton (Ed.): Opera hactenus inedita T. Livii de Frulovisiis de Ferraria. Cambridge 1932.

literature

  • Guido Arbizzoni:  FRULOVISI, Tito Livio de '. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 50:  Francesco I Sforza-Gabbi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1998, pp. 646-650.
  • ML King: Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance. Princeton 1986, pp. 377-378.
  • D. Rundle: Tito Livio Frulovisi, and the place of comedies in the formation of a humanist's career. In: Studi Umanistici Piceni , xxiv (2004), pp. 193-202.
  • D. Rundle: The Unoriginality of Tito Livio Frulovisi's Vita Henrici Quinti. In: English Historical Review , cxxiii (2008), pp. 1109-1131.
  • R. Sabbadini: Tito Livio Frulovisio umanista del sec. XV. In: Giornale storico della Letteratura italiana , ciii (1934), pp. 55-81.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ D. Rundle: The Unoriginality of Tito Livio Frulovisi's Vita Henrici Quinti , in: English Historical Review , cxxiii (2008), pp. 1109–1131.
personal data
SURNAME Frulovisi, Tito Livio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian humanist
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century