Aurelio Lippo Brandolini
Aurelio Lippo Brandolini (1454? In Florence – 1497 in Rome) was an Italian humanist and political theorist who briefly flourished in the court of the Hungarian king, Matthias Corvinus, collaborating with Pietro Bono and Tinctoris. He is the author of the treatise Republics and Kingdoms Compared.
Aurelio Lippo Brandolini
- Born
- 1440. · Florence.
- Died
- 1497. · Rome.
- Occupation
- poet, orator, humanist and writer.
- Fields
- political science, renaissance humanism and theology.
- Languages
- Latin.
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Aurelio Lippo Brandolini (1454? In Florence – 1497 in Rome) was an Italian humanist and political theorist who briefly flourished in the court of the Hungarian king, Matthias Corvinus, collaborating with Pietro Bono and Tinctoris. He is the author of the treatise Republics and Kingdoms Compared.
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Aurelio Lippo Brandolini (1440–1497) was a humanist, orator and poet, among other activities. Born in Florence, the humanist died in Rome.
Aurelio Lippo Brandolini worked in Kingdom of Hungary. The humanist was active in political science, renaissance humanism and theology. Languages used include Latin.
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On March 7, 1483, the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, Brandolini delivered the annual encomium in honor of the "angelic doctor" for the Santa Maria sopra Minerva studium generale, the future Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum. Brandolini said the funerary oration over Matthias Corvinus. Brandolini entered the Augustinian order late in life.
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• Oratio de virtutibus domini nostri Jesu Christi. Romae: ex typographia D. Basae, 1596 • F. Aurelii Brandolini Augustiniani cognomento Lippi De ratione scribendi libri tres, in quibus vir ille doctissimus plura etiam, quae a veteribus de arte dicendi tradita sunt...Accessit eiusdem Lippi Oratio laudatissima de Passione Domini.... [Basle]: Per Ioan. Oporinum, et haeredes Ioan Heruagij, 1565. Londini: Apud Henricum Middletonum, 1573 • Lippi Brandolini De humanae vitae conditione, et toleranda corporis aegritudine:...dialogus. Adiecimus alterae huic editioni. De exilaratione animi, in mortis angore Aymari Falconei Thautani dialogum, opuscolum... Basle: R. Winter, 1543. Parisiis: apud Federicum Morellum..., 1562 • Oratio pro Antonio Lauredano oratore Veneto ad principem et senatum Venetum.
Studies
Studies
• E. Rummel, “In Defense of Theologizing Humanists: Aurelio Brandolini’s ‘In sacram Ebreorum historiam … praefatio” in G. Tournoy, ed., Humanistica Lovaniensia 44 (1995): 90-106.
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1440
Aurelio Lippo Brandolini born at Florence.
1497
Aurelio Lippo Brandolini died on 1 January 1497.
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• James Hankins (ed.), Aurelio Lippo Brandolini, Republics and Kingdoms Compared (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009) (The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 40); * • Review of this edition, with more information
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- 1.texte, Société française de musicologie Auteur du. Revue de musicologie. Gallica. 1949.
- 2.Cinelli, Luciano. I panegirici in onore di s. Tommaso d'Aquino alla Minerva nel XV secolo, "Memorie Domenicane" N.S. 30 (1999), pp. 19-146 [recensito su Medioevo latino XXII (2001), n. 4538]. www.academia.edu.
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Aurelio Lippo Brandolini worked in political science, renaissance humanism and theology.
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