Gasparinus de Bergamo
Gasparino Barzizza (* 1360 in Bergamo, † 1431 in Milan, other names: Gasparinus de Bergamo in Italian; Gasparino (da) Barizizza or Gasparino (da) Barzizza, in French, Gasparin de Pergame, in Latin, Gasparinus Barzizius Pergamensis; Gasparini; Bergamensis ) was one of the first Italian humanists.
Gasparino was an Italian grammarian and a teacher who inspired by the works of Cicero taught a new way Epistle Latin. Together with Pier Paolo Vergerio he had great influence on the development of humanism in Padua. As one of the first Italian humanists, he taught rhetoric, grammar, and moral philosophy with the aim to revive the Latin literature.
He was born in the village Gasparino Di Pietrobuono Barizizza, near Bergamo. In Pavia, he studied grammar and rhetoric, where he also taught from 1407 to 1403. Then he went to Venice to serve there as a private tutor to the Barbaro family. There, however, he found no support for the creation of a school. 1407-1421 he taught then in Padua. Here he had his most productive writing period, which established his reputation as a teacher and scholar. He lectured on rhetoric and the authors Seneca, Cicero, Virgil, and Terence. He also founded an elementary school, which offered a humanistic curriculum. Vitorino da Feltre and Leon Battista Alberti owe him their education in their childhood.
He taught then in Ferrara. In 1418 he opened at the invitation of Filippo Maria Visconti, an elementary school in Milan, in the same way as organized his school in Padua.
From 1421 he taught in Milan. There he served as Visconti court Orator.
He also served as secretary to Pope Martin V.. In this capacity he was present at the Council of Constance.
Gasparinus died in Milan at 1431st
From his marriage with Lucrezia Alliardi he has a son named Guimforte ( Guiniforto ) Barzizza ( c. 1406-63 ), who was a respected teacher and writer and in 1440 in Milan commissioned by Filippo Maria Visconti, a review of Dante's Inferno from the Divine Comedy written. Guimforte married Giovannina Malabarba.
Works
- His work " epistolarum Liber " or " Epistolae Gasparini " is the first book printed in France; printed in 1470 by John Heynlin with the newly introduced printing press. Through this work, students should learn artful and elegant Latin, and the structure of prose.
- Tractatus de Compositione ( 1420 ): a treatise on rhetoric and literary expression. In this treatise, he argues for a return to the expression elements of the rhetoricians of antiquity.
- Orthographia: a handbook of Latin orthography
- Humanist
- Grammarian
- Historical person (Italy )
- Born in the 14th century
- Died in the 15th century
- Man