Filippo Buonaccorsi
Filippo Buonaccorsi, called Callimachus, Callimico, Bonacurarius, Caeculus, Geminianensis
Life
Filippo Buonaccorsi was born in
In 1468 he took part in a supposed assassination attempt upon Pope Paul II and fled to Poland. In Poland he found work with the Bishop of Lwów, Gregory of Sanok.
Buonaccorsi later became tutor to the sons of Polish King
He is credited with the first Western use of the word “Balkan” (referring to the Bulgarian mountain range), in a 1490 letter to Pope Innocent VIII, writing as Buonaccorsi Callimaco.
In his writings, Buonaccorsi argued for the strengthening of the king's power at the expense of the aristocracy. In
Callimachus wrote poems and prose in Latin, and is best remembered for his biographies of Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Bishop Gregory of Sanok, and King Władysław III of Poland.
His tomb in Kraków's Basilica of the Holy Trinity was created by Veit Stoss.[2]
In popular culture
Callimaco Buonaccorsi is a recurring figure in Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolo series of historical novels, particularly in volume seven, Caprice and Rondo.
See also
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- List of Poles
References
- ^ Anthony D'Elia, A sudden terror: The plot to murder the Pope in renaissance Rome, Harvard, 2009
- ^ "Basilica of the Holy Trinity – Zabytki Krakowa". Retrieved 14 May 2020.