Ermolao Barbaro (bishop)

Ermolao Barbaro (1410–1471/1474) was an Italian prelate. He is sometimes referred to as "the elder" to distinguish him from his relative Ermolao Barbaro.

History

Ermolao Barbaro was born into the Venetian Barbaro family, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro and nephew to Francesco Barbaro.[1] around the year 1410. As a child, he studied the Greek language with Guarino Veronese. When he was 12 years old he made a Latin translation of 33 of Aesop's Fables.[2][3][4][5] Barbaro studied at the University of Padua, where he graduated in 1425.[6][7] Among his teachers was Guarino Guarini.[8][9]

Later he moved to Rome where he entered Papal service. In 1435, Pope Eugene IV named him apostolic prothonotary [10][11] and in 1443 appointed Barbaro as Bishop of Treviso.[12][13][14]

In 1447, the Pope promised Barbaro the nomination as Bishop of Bergamo, but instead appointed Polidoro Foscari to the position. Barbaro left Rome and traveled Italy, but he returned to work in the curia and remained there until 1453. Nicholas V appointed him Bishop of Verona and Barbaro settled there on a permanent basis,[15][16][17] except for a brief period in Perugia, from 1460 to 1462, as governor.[12][18] In 1459, Barbaro assisted with the council held by Pius II at Mantua.[19][20] In 1460, he was sent as a papal legate to Charles VII of France [21][22]

Barbaro was responsible for the construction of the Bishop’s Palace at Monteforte d'Alpone between 1453–1471, designed by Michele da Caravaggio.[23][24] He also tranalated the biography of Saint Athanasius by Eusebius of Cesarea.[25] He died in Venice in 1471.[26]

Modern Italian editions of his works

Sources

References

  1. ↑ “A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3”, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 136 ISBN 0-333-76094-8
  2. ↑ Art in Monteforte
  3. ↑ Il Palazzo Vescovile di Monteforte
  4. ↑ “A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3”, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 136 ISBN 0-333-76094-8
  5. ↑ “Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne”, J Fr Michaud; Louis Gabriel Michaud, Paris, Michaud, 1811-28., pg. 330
  6. ↑ Girolamo Tiraboschi, Storia della letteratura italiana, ed. Firenze, 1819, Vol. VI, pag. 808
  7. ↑ “A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3”, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 136 ISBN 0-333-76094-8
  8. ↑ “Possible lives: authors and saints in Renaissance Italy”, Alison Knowles Frazier, New York : Columbia University Press, 2005, pg. 217 ISBN 0-231-12976-9
  9. ↑ “Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne”, J Fr Michaud; Louis Gabriel Michaud, Paris, Michaud, 1811-28., pg. 330
  10. ↑ Società storica lombarda, Archivio storico lombardo, ser.4:v.7, 1907, pag. 323
  11. ↑ “Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne”, J Fr Michaud; Louis Gabriel Michaud, Paris, Michaud, 1811-28., pg. 330
  12. 1 2 Joseph, Thomas (1870). Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology 1. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. p. 262.
  13. ↑ “A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3”, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 136 ISBN 0-333-76094-8
  14. ↑ “Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne”, J Fr Michaud; Louis Gabriel Michaud, Paris, Michaud, 1811-28., pg. 330
  15. ↑ The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello, Margaret L. King, University Of Chicago Press, September 15, 1994
  16. ↑ “A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3”, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 136 ISBN 0-333-76094-8
  17. ↑ “Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne”, J Fr Michaud; Louis Gabriel Michaud, Paris, Michaud, 1811-28., pg. 330
  18. ↑ L'Umanesimo umbro: Atti del IX Convegno di studi umbri. Gubbio, 22-23 settembre, 1974, Perugia, 1977, pag. 199
  19. ↑ “A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3”, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 136 ISBN 0-333-76094-8
  20. ↑ “Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne”, J Fr Michaud; Louis Gabriel Michaud, Paris, Michaud, 1811-28., pg. 330
  21. ↑ “A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3”, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 136 ISBN 0-333-76094-8
  22. ↑ “Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne”, J Fr Michaud; Louis Gabriel Michaud, Paris, Michaud, 1811-28., pg. 330
  23. ↑ Art in Monteforte
  24. ↑ Il Palazzo Vescovile di Monteforte
  25. ↑ “A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3”, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 136 ISBN 0-333-76094-8
  26. ↑ “Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne”, J Fr Michaud; Louis Gabriel Michaud, Paris, Michaud, 1811-28., pg. 330
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