Uberto Decembrio
Illustration — Tomb slab of Decembrio Uberto Decembrio (1350–1427) was a Milanese Renaissance Humanist who worked for the Viscontis. He justified Visconti tyranny, tyranny meaning absolute rule by someone without noble title. In his De Re Publica, dedicated to Filippo Maria Visconti, he argued that public office should be open to all on the basis of talent.
Uberto Decembrio
- Born
- 1350 · Vigevano.
- Died
- 1427 · Treviglio.
- Occupation
- politician · writer · historian · philosopher · translator · humanist · scribe
- Fields
- humanism · politics · literature · renaissance humanism
- Languages
- Italian · Latin
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Illustration — Tomb slab of Decembrio Uberto Decembrio (1350–1427) was a Milanese Renaissance Humanist who worked for the Viscontis. He justified Visconti tyranny, tyranny meaning absolute rule by someone without noble title. In his De Re Publica, dedicated to Filippo Maria Visconti, he argued that public office should be open to all on the basis of talent.
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He justified Visconti tyranny as necessary for Italian unification and to end the factionalism endemic to republics, which were the same reasons Petrarch gave in favor of tyranny but at odds with both Guelph and Ghibeline ideas. Uberto had four sons: Modesto, Pier Candido, Paolo Valerio and Angelo Camillo.
Uberto Decembrio is recorded with the occupation Renaissance humanist. Recorded as politician, writer, historian, philosopher and translator.
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1350
Uberto Decembrio was born on 1 January 1350.
1427
Uberto Decembrio died on 7 April 1427.
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Vigevano.
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Treviglio.
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L'Epistolarum Liber Di Uberto Decembrio (2020) — Open Library
Uberto Decembrio, Four Books on the Commonwealth - de Re Publica Libri IV (2019) — Open Library
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 104240075, Uberto, Decembrio.
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- “Uberto Decembrio”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q670581: Uberto Decembrio
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Uberto Decembrio, “Four Books on the Commonwealth”—“De re publica libri IV.”, Renaissance Quarterly, 2022
Uberto Decembrio, Four Books on the Commonwealth - De re publica libri IV, 2020
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 104240075, Uberto, Decembrio.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Those registers additionally record the forms Hubert, Decembrio, Hubertus, Decembrius, Obertus, December, Decembrio, Hubert, Decembrio, Uberto, December, Obertus, Decembrius, Hubertus and Uberto, Decembrio.
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