Andrea Biglia

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Andrea Biglia (c.1395 – 1435)[1] was an Italian Augustinian humanist, known as a moral philosopher and historian.

Life

He was born in Milan, and became an Augustinian hermit in 1412.[2] After time studying in Padua he came to the Santo Spirito, Florence in 1418.[3]

In 1423 he moved to Bologna, and by the end of the 1420s, after a period at Pavia. He was teaching at the University of Siena, having left Bologna because of anti-papal feeling in 1428. There he died of the plague in 1435.[2][4][5]

Associations

An early influence was

Sigismund of Hungary.[4][7]

Works

Biglia wrote a treatise against the populist preacher Bernardino of Siena.[8] In connection with this dispute, Biglia wrote on the Holy Name of Jesus, and these theological writings proved influential.[9] Some of Biglia's own sermons survive.[2]

As a historian he wrote on

Eastern Christendom and Islam, including a history of the Mongols.[10] His best-known work Rerum mediolanensium historia was a history of Milan in the period 1402–1431 in the style of Livy.[7] In it he was an apologist for the 1424 taking of Forlì by the Visconti.[11]

As a translator he worked on the Vita Timoleontis of Plutarch from Greek, which he had learned at some point, and some of Aristotle.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ "BIGLIA, Andrea". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 10. Treccani. 1968.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-87395-304-7
    . Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  3. ISBN 978-0-8018-8055-1
    . Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0-674-02656-8
    . Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  5. ISBN 978-3-643-11667-3
    . Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  6. ISBN 978-88-343-1486-9
    . Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  7. ^
    ISBN 978-87-635-0532-1
    . Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  8. ISBN 978-0-226-53854-9
    . Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  9. ISBN 978-0-8223-3002-8
    . Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  10. ISBN 978-90-04-13190-3
    . Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  11. ISBN 978-0-391-04202-5
    . Retrieved 2 August 2012.

External links
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