Giovanni Pontano , Pontan, Pontanus ( Italian. Giovanni Pontano , Lat. Iovianus Pontanus ; 1426 or 1429-1503) - Italian poet- humanist, classic of Renaissance Latin poetry.
| Giovanni Pontano | |
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| ital Giovanni Pontano , lat. Iovianus pontanus | |
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| Date of Birth | May 7, 1429 |
| Place of Birth | Cerreto di Spoleto , Umbria |
| Date of death | September 17, 1503 (74 years) |
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He was educated in Perugia , spent his whole life in Naples , was at the head of the Neapolitan Academy , under Ferdinand I was the tutor of his children and the first minister, kept this position under Alfons II and Ferdinand II , which did not prevent him from welcoming the speech of Naples to Charles VIII . Having lost the former position after the French were removed, he did not want to return to state activity during their secondary occupation of Naples and remained a private person until his death. [2]
Works
- Amorum libri (1455-58)
- Charon (1467-91)
- Urania (1476)
- Asinus (1486-90)
- Antonius (1487)
- Meteororum libri (1490)
- Hendecasyllabi seu Baiarum libri (1490–1500)
- De principe (1493)
- De liberalitate (1493)
- Lepidina (1496)
- Actius (1499)
- Aegidium (1501)
- De hortis Hesperidum (1501)
- De fortuna (1501)
Memory
In 1935, the International Astronomical Union assigned the name Giovanni Pontano to the crater on the visible side of the moon .
Notes
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ Pontano, Joviano // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- Pontano, Joviano // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- http://belpaese2000.narod.ru/Teca/Quattro/pontano/pontano0.htm