Giovanni Mansionario

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Giovanni de Matociis (born probably in the second half of the 13th century and died in December 1337), commonly called Giovanni Mansionario from his administrative office in the

Vivaldi held such a position some four centuries later. Giovanni was also a notary.[4] From this time he began work amassing his Historia Imperialis ("Imperial History") a series of emperors' biographies, beginning with Augustus, in which his antiquarian bent and classical studies amended many misconceptions of ancient Roman history.[5] Though he depended on Isidore's Etymologiae to a degree that would have been considered naive a century later, and on the Historia Augusta, deprecated nowadays, his marginal drawings of Roman coins show that numismatics had been brought to the historian's aid perhaps for the first time in this work. Roberto Weiss has observed that "during the early Trecento [14th century] such a work as the Historia Imperialis could have been produced only in Verona", with the unrivalled library holdings of its cathedral chapter.[6] His Latin has been described as "nondescript, unadorned".[7]

By his careful reading of the Roman historian

Saint Athanasius and a book on the Old Testament, also lost.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ R. Avesani, "Il preumanesimo veronese", in Storia della cultura veneta 2:Il Trecento (1976:119ff)
  2. ^ Roberto Weiss, The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity, (Oxford: Blackwell) 1969: "The Forerunners of Petrarch",22-24.
  3. ^ Irene Favaretto, Arte antica e cultura antiquaria nelle collezioni venete al tempo della Serenissima, 1990:32.
  4. ISBN 978-0-391-04202-5, and [1]
  5. Chigi Mss in the Vatican Library (Ms Chig.I.vii.259
    .)
  6. ^ Weiss 1969:22.
  7. ^ Witt, 167
  8. ^ E. Truesdell Merrill, "On the eight-book tradition of Pliny's Letters in Verona", Classical Philology 5 (1910:186-88).
  9. ^ Witt, 166
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