Antonio Cornazano ( Italian: Antonio Cornazzano ) (circa 1430 , Piacenza - 1484, Ferrara ) - Italian poet, writer, biographer and master of dance of the Renaissance [2] . Like Guglielmo Ebreo , Antonio Cornazano was a student of the famous dance master, Domenico of Piacenza , who was given the flattering nickname of “King of the Arts”. Belonged to the Knightly Order of the Golden Spur , or the "Golden Army" ( lat. Ordo Militia Aurata ) [3] .
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Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1430 in the city of Piacenza, which then belonged to the Duchy of Milan . His father, Bonifacio Kornazano, was a well-known lawyer. Mother, Constanta Bagarotti, belonged to the local nobility.
In the years 1444-1447 he studied at the University of Siena .
In 1450 he was in Rome, probably in the service of a senior church hierarch.
In 1455 he returned to Milan , where he served the Duke of Francesco Sforze and wrote a laudatory poem in his honor - De gestis Francisci Sfortiae - or “Sforziade”. Cornatzano also wrote a small work on the art of dance, a biography of the Virgin Mary and a collection of obscene novels in Latin De proverbiorum origine .
In 1466, after the death of the duke, he left Milan and moved to the territory of the Republic of Venice . At one time he worked with condottier Bartolomeo Colleoni and wrote his biography in Latin. In Venice, he collaborated with printer Nicolas Janson and published The Life of Christ.
In 1475 he entered the service at the court of the ruler of the city of Ferrara, where he wrote a number of his important works - a short treatise on the art of government and another on martial art, originally (1476) prose, and then processed into a poem.
He died in 1484 in Ferrara.
Proceedings
In 1455, Kornazano wrote a book on the art of dance called Libro dell'arte del danzare (only the second edition of 1465 was preserved in the collections of the Vatican Library - Codice Capponiano no. 203). This is a theoretical treatise on Italian dances of the 15th century , containing a list of the steps and figures used in them, a description of 8 balletto and 3 low dances .
Latin works
- Commentarium liber de vita et gestis invictissimi bello principis Bartholomeo Colei, per Antonium Cornazzanum ad clarissimam Bergomensem Rempublicam
- Opus anonymum quod Antonio Cornazzano tribuit: De laudibus Antonii Martinengii , circa 1470/74
- De Herculei filli ortu et de urbis Ferrariae periculo ac liberatione
- De re militari
- De excellentium virorum principus
See also
- Renaissance dancing
Literature
- RL Bruni, D. Zancani, Antonio Cornazzano: Latradizione testuale , Florence: Olschki, 1992.
- C. Fahy, The 'De mulieribus admirandis' of Antonio Cornazzano ", LA BIBLIOFILIA, 52 (1960), pp. 144–174.
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ Kassig, Gayle. History of Dance. - Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2007 .-- P. 72. - ISBN 9780736060356 .
- ↑ Famaleonis. La corte e la danza nel Quattrocento italiano (Italian) . www.famaleonis.com. Date of treatment March 21, 2018.