Bartolomeo Sacchi ( Italian: Bartolomeo Sacchi ), known by the nickname Platinum ( 1421 , Piadena , Lombardy - September 21, 1481 , Rome ) - Italian humanist and librarian.
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Biography
Originally from Piadena (in Latin Platina , hence his nickname) near Cremona, he was at one time a soldier in Sforza . Platinum studied since 1449 in Mantua . In 1457 he moved to Florence , where he studied under the philosopher John Argyropole , and in 1462 in Rome .
He spent 4 months in 1464-65 in the prison of the castle of the Holy Angel for threatening the pope with the Cathedral. In 1468, under Pope Paul II, he was arrested for belonging to the Pomponius Leta Academy (Society), along with other participants.
After the death of Pope Paul II, Platinum under Pope Sixtus IV in 1475 was appointed the first librarian of the modern Vatican Apostolic Library in the bull “Ad decorem militantis Ecclesiae” . The fresco of Melozzo da Forlì depicts this event. In 1481, Platinum died of the plague in Rome .
Platinum Works
- Political writings are the treatise “On the Best Citizen”, in which Platinum praised Florence as an example of a “people's state” and the treatise “On the Sovereign,” in which Platinum regarded the state as a product of the creativity of an energetic person.
- The Papal Chronicle ( Liber de vita Christi ac omnium pontificum ), commissioned by the pope, was printed in 1475.
Philosophical Treatises
- Dialogus contra amores (1505)
- The treatise "De falso et vero bono" (1505) - "On the imaginary and true good"
- Dialogue “De principe vero” (1608) - “On True Nobleness”
- The first printed cookbook was De honesta voluptate et valetudine (1470), which Platinum attributed to his philosophical works.De honesta voluptate et valetudine
Links
- Platinum, Bartolomeo // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Bartolomeo Platinum in the Biographical Church Lexicon (BBKL) (German)
- BOOK ABOUT THE LIFE OF CHRIST AND ALL OF THE PRIEST
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