Geremia da Montagnone or Hieremias Paduanus (died 1320/1321) was a judge and author active in

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at the beginning of the 14th century. Little is known about his life and career, but he was apparently involved with the "proto-

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" literary circle of

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at Padua. His writings include a florilegium entitled “Compendium moralium notabilium” which was published at Venice in 1505 under the title “Epytoma sapientie”.

References

* Berthold Ullmann, "Hieremias de Montagnone and his citations from Catullus," in Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Storia e letteratura: raccolta di studi e testi 51 (1973), pp. 79–112. * Gabriella Milan, «GEREMIA da Montagnone», in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 53, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2000. * C. Nighman (ed.), "The ''Compendium moralium notabilium'' Project" (2013- ): http://web.wlu.ca/history/cnighman/CMN/index.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Montagnone, Geremia da Year of birth missing Year of death missing 14th-century Italian jurists Italian male writers Writers from Padua