Английская Википедия:Giorgio Anselmi (poet)
Giorgio Anselmi (Шаблон:Circa – 1528) was an Italian humanist, classicist and poet.
Life
Anselmi was born in Parma before 1459. His father was Andrea Anselmi.Шаблон:Sfn He often added the Latin epithet nepos (grandson) to his name, to distinguish himself from his grandfather, the physician and astrologer Giorgio Anselmi.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He was educated in the Latin and Greek classics, philosophy and medicine.Шаблон:Sfn[1] He was also a numismatist.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Anselmi was friends with Шаблон:Ill, Шаблон:Ill and Francesco Carpesano.Шаблон:Sfn He is known to have given a coin of Petillius Capitolinus to Ugoleto out of his large collection.Шаблон:Sfn He was active in Parmesan politics and was fled the city with his family when King Charles VIII of France approached it with his army during the invasion of 1494. He returned following the war, but spent most of his later years on his farms outside Parma and near Brescello.Шаблон:Sfn
Anselmi had an interest in magic and the occult. He may be the Giorgio who lent his copy of Picatrix to Marsilio Ficino. In the 1510s, he worked unsuccessfully to have his grandgather's occult works published.Шаблон:Sfn He was by then an esteemed man of letters. There is an acrostic for Anselmi in Teofilo Folengo's Chaos del tri per uno. In 1523, he was praised by the Venetian envoy to Parma, Andrea Navagero.Шаблон:Sfn
Anselmi had two daughters, Ottavia and Virginia, one of whom entered the convent of San Paolo in Parma in 1518.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In decorating the Camera della Badessa around that time, the abbess Шаблон:Ill and the painter Correggio may have consulted with Anselmi on classical themes.[2] Anselmi died in Parma in 1528 during an outbreak of plague.Шаблон:Sfn
Works
Anselmi's Latin poetry is humanistic and highly classicizing. Although strong technically, it was criticized as dry even by contemporaries like Lelio Gregorio Giraldi.Шаблон:Sfn
Several of Anselmi's works were printed at Parma, Hecuba in 1506 and Epiphyllides in Plautum in 1510. His greatest work, a collection of poems in seven books, Epigrammaton libri septem, was first printed at Parma in 1526.Шаблон:Sfn The third edition, printed by Maffeo Pasini at Venice in 1528, includes three other poetic compositions:Sosthyrides, Peplum Palladis and Aeglogae quattuor.Шаблон:Sfn[1] Anselmi dedicated epigrams to Navagero, Carpesano,[1] Giovanni Pontano, Pietro Bembo,Шаблон:Sfn the physician Giovanni Marco GarbazzoШаблон:Sfn and his friend and fellow coin collector, Bernardo Bregonzi.Шаблон:Sfn He wrote an epitaph for his grandfather and several epigrams are dedicated to the latter's lost works on astrology and magic, plus one on his surviving work De musica.[1] Three epigrams are dedicated to Homer.Шаблон:Sfn The thoroughly secular and even polytheistic work ends with thanks offered to the Virgin Mary.Шаблон:Sfn An example of Anselmi's "only half-playful polytheism"Шаблон:Sfn can be found in his "Jovi et diis omnibus": Шаблон:Text and translation Anselmi's biography of Шаблон:Ill, Vita de Giacopo Caviceo, was printed at Venice in 1538. A number of his poems are included in the collection Delitiae CC Italorum Poetarum by Jan Gruter (1708).Шаблон:Sfn
Notes
Bibliography
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External links
- Georgius Anselmus nepos at Mirabile: Archivio digitale della cultura medievale
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Seller's description at The Magician's Grandson, Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb, and Шаблон:Harvnb, both attribute the suggestion to Ireneo Affò.
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