Aurelio Lippo Brandolini
Encyclopedia
Aurelio Lippo Brandolini (1454?, Florence
- 1497, Rome
) was an Italian
humanist
and political theorist who briefly flourished in the court of the Hungarian
king, Matthias Corvinus. He is the author of the treatise
Republics and Kingdoms Compared.
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
- 1497, Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
) was an Italian
Italian people
The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...
humanist
Humanism
Humanism is an approach in study, philosophy, world view or practice that focuses on human values and concerns. In philosophy and social science, humanism is a perspective which affirms some notion of human nature, and is contrasted with anti-humanism....
and political theorist who briefly flourished in the court of the Hungarian
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
king, Matthias Corvinus. He is the author of the treatise
Treatise
A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject.-Noteworthy treatises:...
Republics and Kingdoms Compared.
Works
- Oratio de virtutibus domini nostri Jesu Christi. Romae: ex typographia D. Basae, 1596
- F. Aurelii Brandolini Augustiniani cognomento Lippi De ratione scribendi libri tres, in quibus vir ille doctissimus plura etiam, quae a veteribus de arte dicendi tradita sunt...Accessit eiusdem Lippi Oratio laudatissima de Passione Domini.... [Basle]: Per Ioan. Oporinum, et haeredes Ioan Heruagij, 1565. Londini: Apud Henricum Middletonum, 1573
- Lippi Brandolini De humanae vitae conditione, et toleranda corporis aegritudine: ...dialogus. Adiecimus alterae huic editioni. De exilaratione animi, in mortis angore Aymari Falconei Thautani dialogum, opuscolum ... Basle: R. Winter, 1543. Parisiis: apud Federicum Morellum ..., 1562
- Oratio pro Antonio Lauredano oratore Veneto ad principem et senatum Venetum.
Еditions
- James Hankins (ed.), Aurelio Lippo Brandolini, Republics and Kingdoms Compared (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009) (The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 40); *http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=29549&utm_source=bmcr-l&utm_campaign=f3be72d4e6-2009_09_628_27_2009&utm_medium=email
- Review of this edition, with more information
Studies
- E. Rummel, “In Defense of Theologizing Humanists: Aurelio Brandolini’s ‘In sacram Ebreorum historiam … praefatio” in G. Tournoy, ed., Humanistica Lovaniensia 44 (1995): 90-106.