Enoch of Ascoli

Enoch of Ascoli (* 1400 in Ascoli Piceno, † 1457 ), Italy. Enoch d' Ascoli or Latin. Enoch Asculanus was a humanist teacher and representative of Pope Nicholas V. to search for manuscripts with classical texts.

Life

Enoch of Ascoli was educated by Francesco Filelfo. He was a teacher of the sons of Cosimo de ' Medici. Around 1440 he taught in Perugia, then in Rome.

Services

He was an Italian humanist scholar and representative of Pope Nicholas V. to search for manuscripts with classical texts. On behalf of this pope, he sought manuscripts, first in the Middle East and in Northern Europe ( Germany, Denmark, Norway).

In a letter Nicholas V wrote in 1451 to Enoch of Ascoli and ordered him to search the monastic libraries in Germany according to ancient texts that have been lost through the fault of former ages ( culpa Superiorum temporum sunt deperditi ). The Pope made ​​it clear that his goal is to create a large library: so that we have a library of all the Latin and Greek books for the general benefit of learned men, befitting the reputation of the Pope and the Holy See (ut per communi doctorum virorum comodo habeamus librorum omnium tum tum Latinorum grecorum bibliothecam condecentem Pontificis et sedis apostolicae dignitati ).

In 1455 he bought the monastery of Hersfeld the manuscript Codex Hersfeldensis ( with Germania, Agricola, and Dialogus de oratoribus of Tacitus and grammarians and rhetoricians from De virus illustribus by Suetonius ). In the monastery of Fulda, he acquired a manuscript of cookbook De re coquinaria (On the art of cooking ).