Girolamo Aleandro, the younger (29 July 1574 – 9 March 1629) was a very distinguished Italian scholar. His grand-uncle
Girolamo Aleandro
Girolamo Aleandro (also Hieronymus Aleander; 13 February 14801 February 1542) was an Italian cardinal, and .
Life
Aleandro was born on 13 February 1480 in Motta di Livenza, in the province of Treviso, part of the Republic of Venice. He studied i ...
, the elder (1480–1542) is better known and was the first cardinal appointed ''
in pectore
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''.
Biography
Girolamo Aleandro was the son of Scipio Aleandro and Amaltea Amaltei, the daughter of the celebrated
poet
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Girolamo Amaltei, and was born at
Motta di Livenza
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Twin towns
Motta di Livenza is twinned with:
* L'Isle-Jourdain, Gers, France
* Cres
Cres (; ...
in
Friuli
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, on the twenty ninth of July, 1574. Like the cardinal, he displayed great precocity of intellect, and at the age of sixteen he composed seven beautiful odes in the form of paraphrases on the seven penitential psalms, which were afterwards printed at Rome under the title of ''Le Lagrime di Penitenza'': he had previously written a paraphrase of the same psalms in Latin elegiac verse. The epigram upon the death of Camillo Paleotto, printed among his Latin poems, is stated to have been composed in his sleep.
Being designed for the church, he was sent at the age of twenty to the
University of Padua
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, where, under the guidance of
Guido Panciroli
Guido Panciroli or Pancirolli (17 April 1523 – 5 March 1599) was a sixteenth-century Italian antiquarian, historian, jurist and law professor at Ferrara, Padua and Turin. In his time he was renowned as a legal scholar, teaching students who ca ...
,
[.] he applied himself with great ardour to the study of
belles-lettres
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,
jurisprudence
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,
philosophy
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and
theology
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. At the age of twenty six he published his Commentary upon the
''Institutes'' of Gaius, which was well received, and the public professorship of jurisprudence was offered to him by several universities. These invitations he declined, and went to
Rome
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on the suggestion of his uncle,
Attilio Amalteo
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.
He joined the
Accademia degli Umoristi
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, just then instituted at Rome, and embracing all the most learned men in that city, and became one of its most active members; his academical name was Aggirato. He had not long resided at Rome when
Cardinal
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Ottavio Bandini
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Biography
On 25 June 1595 he was consecrated bishop by Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, Archbishop of Florence, with Ludovico de Torres, Archbishop of Monreale, and Gian Francesco ...
appointed him his secretary, in which post he continued twenty years, notwithstanding the numerous solicitations from other cardinals who were anxious to obtain his services. During this long period he devoted all his leisure to the pursuit of
literature
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and
antiquities
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.
In 1624
Pope Urban VIII
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succeeded in drawing him from Cardinal Bandini, and made him his own secretary: he also acted as secretary for his nephew
Cardinal Barberini
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, and accompanied him in this capacity and as councillor upon his being sent, in 1625, as
legate
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''a latere'' to France for the purpose of negotiating a peace between
France
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,
Spain
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, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
and
Genoa
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. Up to this period Aleandro, whose constitution was naturally delicate, had accustomed himself to great regularity and simplicity of life; but in France the necessity to which he was subjected of living more freely, threw him into an ill state of health, which compelled him, instead of accompanying the cardinal, who proceeded into Spain, to return to Rome, where he died on the ninth of March 1629.
His loss was deeply felt by Cardinal Barberini, who was greatly attached to him, and, as a mark of respect, ordered him a splendid funeral. His funeral oration was pronounced by Gaspar de Simeonibus. Aleandro was buried in the
Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
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. Cardinal Barberini paid for his grave monument; the
bust
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is a work by
Antonio Giorgetti
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.
Baillet, on account of his early proofs of genius, has placed him among his ''Enfans célèbres par leurs Études''. He was one of the most learned men of his time, and his style is commended by
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as pure and elegant.
Works
Aleandro's main works are:
* ''Psalmi poenitentiales versibus elegiacis expressi'', Tarvisii 1593;
*
Caii Institutionum fragmenta, & epitome cum Hieronymi Aleandri iunioris commentario', Venetiis, apud Franciscum Bolzetam Bibliopolam Patauinum, 1600;
*
Sopra l'impresa degli Accademici Humoristi', Roma, 1611;
*
Hieronymi Aleandri Antiquae tabulae marmoreae solis effigie symbolisque exculptae accurata explicatio'. Roma, Zannetti, 1616 (republished: Lutetiae Paris. 1617, and in
Johann Georg Graevius
Johann Georg Graevius (originally Grava or Greffe; 29 January 1632 – 11 January 1703) was a German classical scholar and critic. He was born in Naumburg, in the Electorate of Saxony.
Life
Graevius was originally intended for the law, but made t ...
, ''Thesaurus Antiquitatum Romanarum'', Lugduni Batav. 1696, V, ff. 702 ss.);
*''Effigies Sistri Ægyptii quod servatur in Musaeo Francisci Gualdi, explicata'';
*''In Nuptiis M.A. Burghesii Carmen'', Roncilioni, 1619;
*
Hieronymi Aleandri iunioris Refutatio coniecturae anonymi scriptoris de suburbicariis regionibus et dioecesi Episcopi Romani'. Parigi, Cramoisy, 1619;
*''In Obitum Catellae Aldinae Lachrymae poeticae'', Parisiis, 1622;
*''Le Lagrime di Penitenza ad Imitazione de' sette Salmi penitenziali'', Roma, 1623;
*
Navis ecclesiam referentis symbolum in veteri gemma annulari insculptum'. Roma, Francesco Corbelletti, 1626;
*
Difesa dell'Adone, poema del Cav. Marini, per risposta all'Occhiale del Cav. Stigliani'. Venezia, Scaglia, 1629;
*''Additiones ad Ciacconium de Vitis Pontificum''. Urban VIII having determined that a new edition of
Ciacconius' work should be published, deputed Aleandro and Andrea Vittorelli to the task of editors: Aleandro died before the completion of the work, but his additions, comprising vol ii were printed at Rome in 1630;
* ''Additamentum ad Explanationem antiquae Inscriptionis Scipionis Barbati'', published in tom. IV, p. 597 of the works of
Jacques Sirmond
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Simond was born at Riom, Auvergne. He was educated at the Jesuit College of Billom; having been a novice at Verdun and then at Pont-Mousson, he ent ...
.
* The greater part of his Latin poems were published with those of Girolamo, Giambattista and Cornelio Amalteo, his maternal grandfather and uncles, at Venice, in the year 1627.
* His letters addressed to
Jean Morin, were published posthumously by
Richard Simon in his edition of Morin's ''Antiquitates Ecclesiae Orientalis'' (London in 1682, pp. 140 ss.).
The greater part of his correspondence with
Lucas Holstenius
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Life
Born at Hamburg in 1596, he studied at the gymnasium of Hamburg, and later ...
was published by Pélissier.
[Léon-Gabriel Pélissier, ''Les amis d'Holstenius'', in ''Mélanges d'archéol. et d'hist. de l'Ecole française de Rome'', VIII (1888), pp. 323-402, 521-608.]
He also left in manuscript ''Commentarius in Legem de Servitutibus'', various treatises on antiquarian subjects, poems in Latin and Italian, a particular account of which is given by
Mazzucchelli.
References
Bibliography
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Agostino Mascardi
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Expelled from the Jesuit Order by his superiors, Mascardi pursued a successful career as a secretary for various important figures, and beca ...
, ''In Hieronymi Aleandri funere extemporalis eiulatio'', in ''Romanae dissertationes'', Parisiis 1639;
*Paganino Gaudenzi, ''Excussio duplex. Prima in obitum V. Cl. Hieronymi Aleandri. Altera politico-literaria'', Pisis 1639;
* Gian Giuseppe Liruti, ''Notizie delle vite ed opere scritte dai letterati del Friuli'', I, Venezia 1760, pp. 506–536;
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Giammaria Mazzucchelli
Count Giammaria Mazzuchelli (or Giovanni Maria Mazzucchelli) (28 November 1707 – 19 November 1765) was an Italian writer, bibliographer and historian.
Biography
Mazzuchelli was the son of Count Federico Mazzuchelli ( it., Brescia, 1671–174 ...
, ''Gli Scrittori d'Italia'', I, 1, Brescia 1753, pp. 424–431;
*
Giusto Fontanini
Giusto Fontanini (30 October 1666 in San Daniele del Friuli – 17 April 1736 in Rome) was a Roman Catholic archbishop and an Italian historian.
Biography
A prelate and attentive bibliophile, in 1697 became a stubborn and reactionary defender ...
, ''Aminta di Tasso difeso'', p. 136. 169. 292;
* Léon Gabriel Pélissier, ''Les amis d'Holstenius'', in ''Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'Ecole française de Rome'', VIII (1888), pp. 323–402, 521–608;
* Franco Croce, ''I Critici moderato-barocchi'', I, ''La discussione sull'Adone'', in ''La Rassegna della letteratura italiana'', LIX (1955), pp. 422–427.
* Ruth Saunders Magurn, ''The Letters of Peter Paul Rubens'' (Cambridge, 1955), 450 and ''passim'';
* Andrea Benedetti, ''Cornelio Paolo Amalteo, umanista pordenonese'', «Atti dell'Accademia di Udine», s. VII, 8 (1966–69), 97–182, in particular 98 sqq.;
* Ottavio Besomi, ''Tommaso Stigliani: tra parodia e critica'', «Studi Seicenteschi» 13 (1972), 3-73, in particular 4 n.;
* Maurizio Slawinski, ''Agiografie mariniane'', «Studi Seicenteschi», 29 (1988), 19–79, in particular 40 sqq., 50;
* ''Correspondance de
Peiresc et Aleandro'', ed. Jean-Francois Lhote and Danielle Joyal, 2 vols., Clermont-Ferrand: Editions Adosa, 1995;
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