Filippo Buonaccorsi

Filippo Buonaccorsi, also: Bonaccorsi Latin Philippus Callimachus Experiens (* May 2, 1437 in San Gimignano, † November 1, 1497 in Kraków ) was an Italian humanist, writer and statesman of the Renaissance.

Life

Buonaccorsi was of noble birth and studied in Rome, where he joined the circle of Julius Pomponius Laetus joined and secretary to the bishop Bartolomeo Rover Ella was. He was a member of the Accademia Romana. 1468 had to leave Buonaccorsi Rome because he was accused of conspiracy against Pope Paul II.

1470 Buonaccorsi came to Poland, where he arrived in a very short time to the highest influence. He was for Gregory of Sanok, the Archbishop of Lviv, worked, and made him the 1476 biography of Vita et mores Gregorii Sanocei.

He was the secretary of the Polish kings Casimir IV Jagiello and his son, John I. Jagiello. He was entrusted with diplomatic missions to Constantinople Opel, Venice and Rome. At the Cracow Academy led a Buonaccorsi the methods of humanist learning. He wrote a number of historical works and wrote Latin poetry and prose, for example, about the life of Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki, by Bishop Gregory of Sanok and King Wladyslaw III.

In Krakow, he also joined Conrad Celtis and from that donated there scientific society Sodalitas litteraria Vistulana. His tomb in the Dominican Church in Cracow was built by Veit Stoss.

Works (selection)

• Historia de brisk Vladislao seu clade Varnensi
• Vita et mores Gregorii Sanocei ( 1476 arose )