Bonvesin da la Riva
Bonvesin da la Riva (Lombard pronunciation: [bũʋeˈzĩː da la ˈriːʋa]; sometimes Italianized in spelling Bonvesino or Buonvicino; c. 1240 – c. 1313) was an Italian Medieval writer and poet.
Biography
A well-to-do
first known examples of the written Lombard language.[1]
He is often described as the "father" of the Lombard language.
He taught in
belltowers (120) and the portoni, massive front doors of houses (12,500), the city's lawyers (120), physicians (28), ordinary surgeons (at least 150), butchers (440) and communal trumpeters (6). His order, the Umiliati, served as a kind of civil service in Milan, collecting taxes and controlling the communal treasury, so he was in a position to know. His long inventory of the fruits and vegetables that Milanesi were eating served as a rare source of ordinary fare for the historian of cuisine,[2] as his verses De quinquaginta curialitatibus ad mensam ("Fifty courtesies at Table"), written in the Lombard language for the instruction of those not proficient in Latin, serve the historian of table manners
.
Other works
In
Latin
except where noted.
- Liber di Tre Scricciur (Lombard language)
- Disputatio musce cum formica
- Disputatio rosae cum viola
- De vulgare de elymosinis
- Laudes de Virgine Maria
Notes
External links
- Avalle, D'Arco Silvio (1970). "BONVESIN da La Riva". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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