Baptista Mantuanus

Mantua Battista ( Baptista also Mantuanus ) ( born April 17, 1447 Mantua, † March 20, 1516 ) was an Italian poet and humanist.

Life

Mantua was born as Giovanni Battista Spagnoli and came from a Spanish family. Mantua studied under Georgius Merula in Padua. After a quarrel with his father, he entered the Carmelite Order in 1463 and eventually became the General ( 1513). During the 1470s he studied theology and taught at the Monastery of San Martino in Bologna. 1493 he was appointed director of studies at Reformed Carmelite monastery in Mantua. Mantua wrote religious poems in Latin language in the style of Virgil. He wrote ten poems Shepherd, an epic poem, which was dedicated to Alfonso of Aragon, and " De calamitatibus nostrum temporum " in which he criticized certain aspects of human culture. Mantua was the author of many other works, and also known outside Italy.

Works

• De vita beata: With the addition of nine couplets In auctoris Laude et opusculi. Richard Paffraet, Deventer to 1495th ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
• De suorum temporum calamitatibus. Richard Paffraet, Deventer 22 XI. 1497 ( digitized )
• Baptistae Mantuani De patientia aurei: libri 3 - Dave Trie: Richardus Pafraet, 1501 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf.
• F. Baptiste Mantuani Bucolica Seu adolescentia in decem aeglogas divisa / from Jodoco Badio Ascensio familiariter exposita cum indice dictionum. - Argentina Tinae: Pruss, 1503 Digitized edition.
• Baptiste Mantuani carmen de fortuna. de Borne, Deventer c.1510 ( digitized )
• F. Baptistae Mantuani ... fastorum libri duodecim: quibus praemittitur: Carmen ad Julium II, pontif. max. Carmen ad leonem X., pontif. max. Vita auhoris ...; ita et alia quaepiam. - Argentorati: Schurer, 1518 Digitized edition.