Maffeo Vegio

Its combination of classical learning and piety made it very popular in its day; it was often included in editions of the Aeneid in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. An electronic text can be found at the Latin Library. Vegio also wrote an epic, Astyanax (1430), on the death of the son of Hector, prince of Troy, and a four-book epic, Vellus Aureum (the Golden Fleece) (1431). During 1436–37 he completed his epic on the life of the Christian Saint Anthony, the Antoniad. Putnam edited and translated Vegio's Short Epics for the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University Press). Vegio flattered his way into the papal court, and was made canon of St. Some of Vegio's poems were later set as motets by renaissance composers – an example being Huc me sidereo, set by Josquin, Jacobus Vaet, Orlando Di Lasso and the first motet of Adrian Willaert's 1559 Musica Nova collection.

Maffeo Vegio studied at University of Pavia and University of Milan. Training under Bernardino of Siena is recorded. The recorded working language is renaissance Latin, Italian and Latin. Works named in the authority record are De rebus antiquis memorabilibus Basilicae sancti Petri Romae, Poemata et epigrammata, Antoniados, De liberorum educatione et eorum claris moribus, De morte Astyanactis and Vellus aureum.

• Illustration — Vocabula ex iure civili excerpta, 1477 (partial list) • Poems • Poemata et epigrammata, 1422 • Rusticalia • De morte Astyanactis, 1430 • Velleris aurei libri quattuor, 1431 • Religious texts • Antoniados sive de vita et laudibus sancti Antonii, 1436–1437 • De perseverantia religionis • De quattuor hominis novissimis, morte, judicio, inferno et paradiso meditationes • Vita sancti Bernardi Senensis • Sanctae Monicae translationis ordo. Item de sanctae Monicae vita et ejus officium proprium • Works about ethics • Disceptatio inter solem, terram, et aurum. • Dialogus Veritatis et Philalethis. • Palinurus sive de felicitate et miseria, 1445. • Historical works • De rebus antiquis memorabilibus Basilicae sancti Petri Romae, 1455–1457. • Works about law *

Works recorded as notable number 7: De rebus antiquis memorabilibus Basilicae sancti Petri Romae, Poemata et epigrammata, Antoniados, De liberorum educatione et eorum claris moribus, De morte Astyanactis, Vellus aureum and Liber XII Æneidos libris additus.