Giovanni Rucellai

Giovanni Rucellai, also Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai and Giovanni II ( born October 20, 1475 Florence, † April 3, 1525 in Rome ) was an Italian poet.

Giovanni Rucellai was the grandson of the same bankers and art patron Giovanni Rucellai (Giovanni di Paolo ) and son of Bernardo Rucellai. As a relative of the Medici, he was included in their exile and lived thereon in Rome, where he wrote most of his works. With the Medici in 1512, he returned back to Florence and received several honorable offices, but which he renounced after collecting his cousin Leo X to the papal chair to enter into holy orders. Leo set him at his court, and sent him as nuncio to later Francis I of France. Leo's death (1521 ) took the hope of a cardinal's hat; but he was under Clement VII governor of Castel Sant'Angelo, and in this position he died in 1525.

His tragedy Rosmunda (Siena 1525) is the oldest regular Italian tragedy next to the Sofonisba Trissinos and is characterized by ornate building. His Oreste, however, is little more than a watered down imitation of the Iphigenia of Euripides. His fame as a poet is preferably based on his didactic poem Le api ( first o O. 1539, Venice in 1539 and more often, best Padua in 1718, Milan 1826), a free simulation and extension of the fourth book of the Georgics of Virgil, and one of the best poems of its kind in the Italian literature. Ruccellais all works published in Padua in 1772.

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• Author
• Literature (16th century)
• Literature ( Italian)
• Poetry
• Italian
• Born in 1475
• Died in 1525
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