Carlo Marsuppini
Carlo Marsuppini (1399–1453), also known as Carlo Aretino and Carolus Arretinus, was an Italian
Biography
Marsuppini was born in
Upon the death of his father Gregorio in 1444, Carlo commissioned from the painter
He was a man of great culture, the author of letters and some poems. Among his works: a Consolatio of noteworthy Christian inspiration (which contrasts with his reputation for unbelief) upon the death of Piccarda de' Bueri (1368 to 1433), addressed to her sons Cosimo dei Medici and Lorenzo. Pope Nicholas V instructed him in 1452 to translate Homer's Iliad into Latin; however he died with much of the work incomplete. There also remain some "belles-lettres" in the Humanist genre, such as a translation of the Batracomyomachia, and solemn Latin poetry.
Two sons of Carlo Marsuppini, Cristoforo and Carlo (junior) appear as characters in the Commentarium in Convivium Platonis de Amore (“Commentary on Plato’s Symposium”) by Marsilio Ficino. Among Carlo's pupils was Giovanni Forteguerri of Pistoia.
Marsuppini was posthumously crowned poet laureate; his eulogy was read by Matteo Palmieri.[3]
Citations
- ^ Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance; by Robert Black; Cambridge University Press (1985); page 72.
- ^ Vite di uomini illustri del secolo 15; by Vespasiano da Bisticci, Angelo Mai, Adolfo Bartoli, page 440.
- ^ Burckhardt, Jacob (1878). The Civilization Of The Renaissance in Italy. University of Toronto - Robarts Library: Vienna Phaidon Press. p. 106. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
External links
- Media related to Carlo Marsuppini at Wikimedia Commons