Gaspare Trimbocchi
Gaspare Trimbocchi, called il Tribacco (c. 23 February 1439 – circa 1492) was an Italian humanist.
He was born in
Borso d’Este, to travel to travel to Greece. It is unclear if he ever went. Borso added stipends to employ him as a teacher of Latin grammar in Modena, where among his pupils was Antonio Urceo
(il Codro da Rubiera). By 1466, he was a teacher in Ferrara.
After the death of Borso in 1471, he moved to Venice, were he received a commission to teach in
epigrams; and occasional poems. He dedicated in 1463 an encomium
describing the Triumph of Borso d'Este (Trimphus). Other poems include:
- De apparatu divi Borsii Estensis contra Turcum Christi persecutorem
- De velocitate temporis
- De casibus Herculis in insania
He died in poverty.[1] Dionigi Trimbocco (died 1526) was putatively a grandson of Gaspare, and taught literature and classic languages for decades in Modena.[2][3]
References
- ^ Encyclopedia Treccani entry, by Claudia Corfiati; Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; Volume 96 (2019).
- ^ Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 413.
- ^ Atti della Accademia delle scienze di Torino; Volume 51 (1916); pages 462-470.