Bartolomeo Facio

Life

As a student of Guarino da Verona looked Facio as a tutor in Venice, Florence and Genoa. 1444 he drove in the diplomatic service of Genoa to Naples, where he became secretary and astrologer of King Alfonso V of Aragon. His historical work about the government of Alfonso is one of the main sources for the study of Neapolitan culture in the 15th century. With his work " De viris illustribus " Facio wrote the biographies of important contemporaries. Facio contested from a long, bitter struggle against Lorenzo Valla, whose historical work about Ferdinand I of Aragon he had criticized.

Works (selection)

  • De viris illustribus
  • Italian
  • Humanist
  • Astrologer
  • Born in the 14th or 15th century
  • Died in 1457
  • Man
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