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L’Alcibiade di Francesco Barbaro
No full textIl codicetto Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Suppl. gr. 55 contiene l’Alcibiade I e l’Alcibiade II platonici, con maldestre interpolazioni testuali, derivate in parte dagli scolii, in parte però – come già segnalato da A. Carlini – da fini e peculiari osservazioni umanistiche, poi per lo più cassate da una mano che corresse sistematicamente il testo. Mediante l’incrocio di indizi si ricostruisce la storia del manoscritto, che deve essere appartenuto nel primo ’500 ad Aulo Giano Parrasio e prima alla biblioteca Barbaro, a Venezia, e la mano correttrice è identificata come quella di Francesco Barbaro. Dietro le lezioni e le interpolazioni più ‘interessanti’ del codice si intravede la lezione di Guarino e forse di Manuele Crisolora
Francesco Barbaro e dintorni
No full textThrough his own substantial and constant cultural
and political commitment, the Venetian patrician
Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454), a pupil of Giovanni Conversini,
Gasparino Barzizza and Guarino Guarini, was a
promoter of the then new Humanist movement and a
protector of his city’s civic heritage. Like his contemporary
Florentine literati friends, he proposed the Rome of
the republican era as a model, with whose protagonists
he personally identified, reintroducing their civic and
moral values as well as their patriotism. His works provide
an example of «civic humanism» conceived in austere
terms, but capable of going beyond shallow local rivalries
in order to open up to a supranational dimension
of culture, implicit in the concept of the «res publica litteraria
», which would enjoy special favour in the centuries
to com
Il patriarca Francesco Barbaro e la provincia ecclesiastica aquileiese
No full textFrancesco Barbaro, patriarca di Aquileia dal 1593 al 1616, dedicò le sue cure alla diocesi, più che alla provincia ecclesiastica. Tuttavia convocò un concilio provinciale a Udine (1596) e fu in buoni rapporti col metropolita della provincia ecclesiastica milanese, Federico Borromeo (cui indirizzò una famosa lettera per la beatificazione di Carlo Borromeo). Durante l'Interdetto del 1606, non osò proclamarlo nella propria diocesi e provincia, ma svolse a favore di Roma una segreta attività di informatore, denunciando duramente Paolo Sarpi
Pier Candido Decembrio, Francesco Barbaro y Alfonso de Cartagena (sobre un pasaje del epistolario de P. C. Decembrio
Get PDFThe epistolary exchange between Alfonso de Cartagena and Pier Candido Decembrio provides useful clues to determine the direct or indirect relationship of the Castilian bishop with Italian humanism. In one of these letters, Cartagena states that he had received through Nuño de Guzmán a liber declamationum from Decembrio, in the second part of which, of miscellaneous content, two epistles stand out, one by Francesco Barbaro in which he supports the Venetian political regime and another by Decembrio in which he defends Milan’s monarchical form of government. The two texts that reached Cartagena’s hands, produced in the context of the defence of Brescia against the siege of the Milanese army (1438-1439), are identified here by means of Francesco Barbaro’s correspondence, while information is also provided about an unpublished epistle from Decembrio.El intercambio epistolar entre Alfonso de Cartagena y Pier Candido Decembrio aporta indicios útiles para conocer la relación directa o indirecta del obispo de Burgos con el humanismo italiano. En una de estas misivas, Cartagena afirma haber recibido por intermedio de Nuño de Guzmán un liber declamationum de Decembrio, en cuya segunda parte de contenido misceláneo destacan dos epístolas, una de Francesco Barbaro en que sustenta el régimen político de Venecia y otra de Decembrio en que defiende el gobierno monárquico de Milán. A través del epistolario de Francesco Barbaro se identifican aquí los dos textos que llegaron a manos de Cartagena, producidos en el contexto de la defensa de Brescia frente al asedio del ejército milanés (1438-1439), al tiempo que se da noticia de una epístola inédita de Decembrio
Umanisti titolati e di provincia. Biglietti in volgare tra Francesco Barbaro e Bartolomeo Baldana
Get PDFThe paper focuses on Bartolomeo Baldana, lawyer and government official at the Papal
Court during 15th Century, reviewing his biography on the basis of some new documents. It is
thus highlighted its cultural background, which in addition to Venetian Humanism’s Leaders like
Francesco Barbaro and Pietro Donà involved some lesser known Humanists whose studies were nevertheless
devoted to historical features of Latin language. Two vernacular texts written by Baldana
and Barbaro at the time when they were commissioned as public administrators are examined in
the light of these circumstances
Ciceron, Plutarh i Francesco Barbaro u Zadru 1417-1419.
Get PDFLudwig Bertalot’s monumental Initia humanistica Latina (1985-2004) records several letters sent from Zadar to Venice and vice versa in the period from the spring of 1417 to summer 1419. These letters, preserved in two manuscript codices (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. lat. 5350; Salzburg, Stiftsbibliothek der Erzabtei St. Peter, Cod. b. ix 8), are remains of an exchange of correspondence between the Venetian humanist Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454) and two Venetian administrators of Zadar (over which Venice obtained control in 1409), the capitano Sante Venier, and his vice-capitano (military commander) Giovanni Battista Bevilacqua. Bevilacqua was also in epistolary contact with a nobleman from Zadar, Juraj Jurjević (Georgius de Georgiis Iadrensis, Zorzi di Zorzi or Giorgio Giorgi). An important theme in these letters is the reading and sharing of texts: by Barbaro himself, by Plutarch (as translated by Barbaro), and Cicero. At the beginning of 15th century, all these texts could have been read in manuscript only; we must therefore infer that codices of these texts travelled into and out of Renaissance Zadar.
Francesco Barbaro, as a Venetian humanist of the first rank, needs no special introduction. Giovanni Battista Bevilacqua from Verona (d. about 1434) was in fact a condottiere, serving in Zadar 1417-1425; later he was to be engaged in Venice’s war against Milan (1426), and to describe, in October 1427, the battle of Maclodio to Guarino Veronese. Sante Venier, to whom Barbaro wrote in 1417, later had a brilliant career as administrator and ambassador of the Serenissima; in 1423 he was provveditore generale in Thessalonica. Juraj Jurjević, son of Pavao (Paolo), was born around 1370, and studied in Padua in 1386-1393; there he acquired a doctorate of civil law in May 1397. Together with his father and other noble supporters of Sigismund of Luxemburg, King of Hungary and Croatia, Juraj Jurjević was interned in Venice from 1411 onwards; in autumn 1418 Bevilacqua tried unsuccessfully to introduce Jurjević to Francesco Barbaro. There are five letters sent to Jurjević by Bevilacqua during the second half of 1418, and one letter sent to Bevilacqua by Jurjević. To this day the letters remain in manuscript; the one by Jurjević to Bevilacqua is published here from Munich manuscript Clm 5350.
Literary texts mentioned in the Barbaro – Bevilacqua – Venier – Jurjevićcorrespondence are, first, three works by Barbaro himself. The De re uxoria (1416)was sent to Bevilacqua in Zadar to be read and transcribed in autumn of 1418. Later, in February 1419, Bevilacqua got to read Barbaro’s letter to Poggio Bracciolini (from July 1417). Finally, in summer of 1419, Barbaro’s translation of Plutarch’s »Life of Aristides and Cato the Elder« (Barbaro translated it in 1415), for which Bevilacqua had to ask several times, arrived in Zadar.
Sante Venier in May 1417 received Cicero’s letter to his brother Quintus (ad Q. fr. 1, 1-2), enthusiastically recommended by Barbaro as a guide for the effective management of a city-state.
Letters to Jurjević suggest that in Zadar Bevilacqua read Valerius Maximus or Pseudo-Pliny’s (Pseudo-Aurelius Victor’s) De viris illustribus (the soldier from Verona speaks about conditissimorum dogmata illustriumque gesta uirorum and eorum gesta atque instituta).
Juraj Jurjević himself tried his hand at literary studies while still a student in Padua. In 1794 Gottfried Ernst Groddeck described a manuscript of Seneca’s tragedies which was completed by Jurjević on October 16, 1396; this MS is today lost, but the list of variant readings in it was published by Groddeck, as well as an important Jurjević’s statement from the colophon (habui exemplaria). This implies that Jurjević can be regarded as the first humanist from Croatia with philological interests; thirty years, almost a generation, were to pass before Juraj Benja from Zadar and Petar Cipiko from Trogir start copying Caesar, Frontinus, Vegetius and other ancient authors (in 1425-1438).
The results of our research open a question. How much influence did the humanist activities of Bevilacqua, Venier, and Jurjević (not to mention Barbaro) have on Renaissance culture in Zadar? Were the »colonial administrators« isolated from the »local population«, as one could perhaps conclude from a letter of the Doge issued in 1458, which forbids citizens of Zadar to enter the city’s citadel and to perform military duties there, and from the fact that Bevilacqua mentions no local humanists (unlike e. g. Cyriacus of Ancona in 1436) and has no local correspondents (unlike Maffeo Vallaresso in 1450-1494)? Though the question remains open, the correspondence shows that Bevilacqua supported a candidate for a teaching post in Zadar. Moreover, the works mentioned in Bevilacqua’s correspondence – De re uxoria, De viris illustribus, Cicero’s letter to Quintus, Plutarch’s Parallel lives,Seneca’s tragedies -surface frequently in texts and readings of humanists from Dalmatia and Dubrovnik (e. g. Marko Marulić, Nikola Resti, Benedikt Kotruljević, Juraj Benja, Petar Cipiko, Jakov Bunić).Pretražujući incipitarij Ludwiga Bertalota Initia humanistica Latina (1985-2004) naišli smo na niz pisama poslanih iz Zadra u Veneciju i vice versa, u razdoblju od proljeća 1417. do ljeta 1419. Radi se o prepisci humanista Francesca Barbara (Venecija, 1390-1454) s mletačkim kapetanom Zadra Santeom Venierom i Venierovim vicekapetanom (zapovjednikom vojne posade) Giovannijem Battistom Bevilacquom. Velik dio prepiske posvećen je tekstovima koje Barbaro šalje na čitanje u Zadar; to su Ciceronovo pismo bratu Kvintu o upravljanju provincijom (Cic. ad Q. fr. 1,1), Barbarovi prijevodi Plutarhovih životopisa Aristida i Katona te rasprava mletačkoga humanista De re uxoria (oboje nastalo 1416), kao i pismo Poggiu Braccioliniju iz 1417. Posrednik koji prenosi tekstove i pisma Zadranin je, Bevilacquin vojni kurir Ivan Stellini. Postoji i dosad neobjavljena prepiska zadarskog plemića Jurja Jurjevića i Bevilacque. Ti i drugi podaci iz zadarskog dijela Barbarove i Bevilacquine korespondencije doprinose našem poznavanju humanističke kulture Zadra i Dalmacije
The Fashioning of the Humanist Governor at the Dawn of a New Political and Cultural Era: Francesco Barbaro as Podestà of Venetian Vicenza
No full textInternational audienceThe patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454) is well known for having been both a first-class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a consensual ideology of the Venetian power as a Roman-like republican empire. The article highlights Barbaro’s tenure in Vicenza in 1425-1426 as a critical moment in this process, drawing attention to the three public panegyrics written during his stay: the two orations composed by Matteo Bissaro and the preamble to the new communal statutes written by Guarino Veronese. These texts show how, through the idealization of Barbaro’s figure, Neo-Ciceronian oratory became a common language for the local and patrician ruling classes and promoted an ethical pact, based on the reference to the ancients’ virtues
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