Buonaccorso da Montemagno

Buonaccorso because Montemagno is the name of two Italian scholars of the Middle Ages from Pistoia in Tuscany. The 1390 deceased elder of the two was a lawyer and ambassador. He presented the statutes and laws of Pistoia together in 1371. Seals are not attributed to him with certainty.

Buonaccorso because Montemagno the Younger ( * 1391 or in 1393 in Pistoia in Tuscany, † December 16, 1429 in Florence) was the nephew of the elder Buonaccorso.

Life

The younger Buonaccorso because Montemagno was a humanist of the Renaissance. 1421 he was a judge in the district of Santa Croce in Florence. In the same year he was appointed Maestro in the Studio Fiorentino. In July 1428 he was sent as ambassador to the Duke of Milan, to negotiate the terms of a peace treaty, as Florence in previous conflicts was an ally of the Republic of Venice.

Seals and works

In his poems, Le Rime, imitated since Montemagno the Sonnetti d' amore by Petrarch. His public speeches were estimated by Christoforo Landino and from this he was equated with Giovanni Boccaccio, Leone Battista Alberti and Matteo Palmieri.

In his work Controversia de nobilitate is because Montemagno the then new topos of the homo novus ago ( Nobilita ) to show its nobility by his character, his actions and his career by itself. The work was translated by Jean Mielot into French and printed in 1476 in Bruges by Colard Mansion entitled controversie de noblesse. An English translation was made by John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester and was printed in 1481 by William Caxton. As a dialogue of Sixt Birck in Latin it was printed in 1540 in Ausgsburg and stands today as a digitized version available.

Antonio Francesco Grazzini called the works since Montemagnos in his Vocabulario, published by the Accademia della Crusca, as examples of the purest Italian-speaking poetry and prose.