Cristoforo Landino

Cristoforo Landino ( complete: Cristoforo di Bartolomeo Landino, Latin: Christophorus Landinus, to avoid hybrid notation: Christoforo Landino; born February 8, 1425 Prato Vecchio ( more likely) or Florence, † September 24, 1498 (disputed ) in Borgo alla Collina, today hamlet of Castel San Niccolò ) was an Italian humanist and poet, teacher of rhetoric and poetics, State Chancellor of the Republic of Florence.

Life

He devoted himself in his native city of Volterra and the classical studies, took over in 1457 as professor of poetry and eloquence in Florence. He was promoted by Piero de Medici, the Landino entrusted the education of his sons, born 1449 and 1453 Lorenzo de Medici and Giuliano de Medici I.. He later received the Secretary of the Florentine Signoria place. Since 1497 retired from public life, he died in 1504 in Prato Vecchio. He was a teacher well-known personalities such as Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) and Marsilio Ficino ( 1433-1499 ). The main works are his Landino " Disputationes Camaldulenses " ( Flor. 1475 Straßb. 1508) and his comprehensive review of Dante's " Divina Commedia ", thereby significantly promoted the Dante studies in Italy. The Florentine Signoria gave him a sure Borgo alla Collina located in on the rampart tower house, where he is buried. In addition, Landino left comments on Horace and Virgil, Latin poems, a translation of Pliny's " Natural History".