Hermolao Barbaro
See also: Barbaro
Hermolao Barbaro ( Hermolaus Barbarus the Young person ) (born the May 21st 1454 with Venice - died the June 14th 1493 with Rome) was a Humaniste Italy N of the Renaissance (15th century), which was all at the same time writer, professor and diplomat.
Biography
Hermolao Barbaro was charged by the senate with Venice several important negotiations near the emperors Frederic III and Maximilien I {{er}}, and was named by the pope Innocent VIII Patriarque of Aquilée. It cultivated the letters successfully: one owes him of the translations of Dioscoride, Thémistius and important work on Aristote and Pline (Rome, 1492).
It écrvit in 1493, a work entitled Castigatines Plananiae , in which he reports the errors in the observations of Pline.
After having met Politien with Venice, Hermolao Barbaro writes to him to ensure it of the immense respect in which it holds it and to address a double request to him: that it continues to assist from the beautiful letters and that it accepts that him, Barbaro, assists it in this combat. It with what Politien answers that “if ten Barbaro (him) were given, (it would A) good hope that soon the Greek and Latin letters are saved cruelty. ” Such an exchange of compliments was traditional at the time in the humanistic correspondence.
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