Andrea Biglia

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Andrea Biglia (c.1395 – 1435)[1] was an Italian Augustinian humanist, known as a moral philosopher and historian.

Life[]

He was born in Milan, and became an Augustinian hermit in 1412.[2] After time studying in Padua he came to the Santo Spirito, Florence in 1418.[3]

In 1423 he moved to Bologna, and by the end of the 1420s, after a period at Pavia. He was teaching at the University of Siena, having left Bologna because of anti-papal feeling in 1428. There he died of the plague in 1435.[2][4][5]

Associations[]

An early influence was Gasparino Barzizza at Padua, and Sicco Polento, another pupil there, became a friend. Biglia in Florence met the humanist circle including Ambrogio Traversari: others were Giovanni Aurispa, Leonardo Bruni and Niccolò Niccoli. In Bologna he associated with Niccolò Albergati. There he encountered Aurispa again, and the other humanists Leon Battista Alberti, , Antonio Panormita, and .[2][6] His interest in Islamic history was stimulated by the 1432 visit to Siena of Sigismund of Hungary.[4][7]

Works[]

Biglia wrote a treatise against the populist preacher Bernardino of Siena.[8] In connection with this dispute, Biglia wrote on the Holy Name of Jesus, and these theological writings proved influential.[9] Some of Biglia's own sermons survive.[2]

As a historian he wrote on Eastern Christendom and Islam, including a history of the Mongols.[10] His best-known work Rerum mediolanensium historia was a history of Milan in the period 1402–1431 in the style of Livy.[7] In it he was an apologist for the 1424 taking of Forlì by the Visconti.[11]

As a translator he worked on the Vita Timoleontis of Plutarch from Greek, which he had learned at some point, and some of Aristotle.[2]

Notes[]

  1. ^ "BIGLIA, Andrea". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). 10. Treccani. 1968.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Charles L. Stinger (1977). Humanism and the Church Fathers: Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) and Christian Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance. SUNY Press. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-0-87395-304-7. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  3. ^ Paul F. Grendler (29 September 2004). The Universities of the Italian Renaissance. JHU Press. p. 321. ISBN 978-0-8018-8055-1. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Margaret Meserve (2008). Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought. Harvard University Press. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-674-02656-8. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  5. ^ Achim Wesjohann (May 2012). Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. Und 14. Jahrhundert (in German). LIT Verlag Münster. p. 666. ISBN 978-3-643-11667-3. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  6. ^ Mirella Ferrari; Marco Navoni (2007). Nuove ricerche su codici in scrittura latina dell'Ambrosiana: atti del Convegno, Milano, 6-7 ottobre 2005 (in Italian). Vita e Pensiero. p. 255. ISBN 978-88-343-1486-9. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Marianne Pade (2007). The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-87-635-0532-1. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  8. ^ Franco Mormando (1 May 1999). The Preacher's Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy. University of Chicago Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-226-53854-9. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  9. ^ Riccardo Fubini (1 January 2003). Humanism and Secularization: From Petrarch to Valla. Duke University Press. p. 302. ISBN 978-0-8223-3002-8. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  10. ^ Z. R. W. M. von Martels; Arie Johan Vanderjagt (2003). Pius II, "el Più Expeditivo Pontifice": Selected Studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464). BRILL. p. 31. ISBN 978-90-04-13190-3. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  11. ^ Ronald G. Witt (1 August 2003). In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni. BRILL. pp. 491–2. ISBN 978-0-391-04202-5. Retrieved 2 August 2012.

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