Tommaso Rangone
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Tommaso Rangone (born Tommaso Giannotti in August 1493 in Ravenna ; died September 10, 1577 in Venice ) was an Italian doctor, astrologer and patron. He became known as the author of extensive medical writings and as a patron of famous artists and commissioner of important buildings.
Life
Tommaso Giannotti studied medicine at the University of Bologna from around 1510 and received his doctorate in medicine in 1516. He went to the Vatican and found sponsors there and made useful contacts. He studied mathematics and astrology at the University of Padua and finished his studies in 1521. Rangone received a position as a doctor and astrologer with Guido I Rangoni at the court of Modena and took the name Rangone. Rangone then worked at the court in Mantua and then went to Venice , where he was appointed naval doctor. In Venice he made his fortune selling fantasy drugs. From 1514 he published astrological writings in which the events of the following years were forecast.
Rangone wrote several writings on medical subjects, both in Latin and in Volgare . In 1553/54 he financed the facade for the structural renovation of the Church of San Zulian by the architects Jacopo Sansovino and Alessandro Vittoria . Vittoria struck medals with his portrait and also created a bust of Rangone, which was placed in the Church of San Geminiano . In 1562 he commissioned Jacopo Tintoretto with the painting The Recovery of the Corpse of St. Mark . He was made Knight of Saint Mark by Doge Gerolamo Priuli in 1562 .
Rangone had ordered a spectacular funeral service for his death, commissioned a tomb from the sculptor Jacopo Sansovino and a grave inscription that glorified him for the church of San Zulian. The grave plaque is now in the Museo lapidario del Seminario Patriarcale di Venezia.
"THOMAS PHILOLOGUS RAVENNAS / RANGONUS PHYSICUS EQ. COMES MA / BI PALATI. RAV. PAD. MENTE SEMPER TOTA / AC ANIMO IN DEUM, ET QUAE DEI SUNT / VIRTUTEM, ET PIETATEM PERPETUO / INTENTUS, DIVO THOMA CHRISTIANAE / FIDEI APPROBO. HISQ. OMNIBUS / SANCTUM SEPULCHRUM SACRUM / CAELI PALATIUM ILLUSTRAVIT. "
literature
- Franco Bacchelli: Giannotti Rangoni Tommaso , in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Volume 54, 2000
- Sabine Herrmann: Tomaso Rangone: doctor, astrologer and patron in Renaissance Italy . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017 ISBN 978-3-525-30098-5 Contents
- B. Boucher: The culture of Jacopo Sansovino . New Haven, CT, 1991, I, p. 266
- Grete de Francesco : The Power of the Charlatan . Basel: Benno Schwabe, 1937, p. 123ff
Web links
- Literature by and about Tommaso Rangone in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Tommaso Rangone in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Racconto di Venezia 6: Tommaso Rangone, da astrologo a mecenate di Jacopo Tintoretto , at Heritage Italy Associazione Culturale, June 30, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rangone, Tommaso |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giannotti, Tommaso (maiden name); Philologus, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian doctor, astrologer and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1493 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ravenna |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1577 |
| Place of death | Venice |