IX: Barzizza's Last Years, 1421-1430
R. G. G. Mercer
From The Teaching of Gasparino Barzizza: With Special Reference to his Place in Paduan Humanism (1979), pp. 132-37, doi:10.59860/td.c382cc7
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| Part of the book: The Teaching of Gasparino Barzizza R. G. G. Mercer MHRA Texts and Dissertations 10 Modern Humanities Research Association Abstract. Barzizza's last ten years were spent mainly in Pavia and Milan, in those parts where he had passed his early life. He had left Pavia in 1407 as a little-known master, struggling for teaching appointments, lucky to have a few contacts in Venice and Padua. He returned in 1421 to help disentangle the most important textual discovery of the day, the Ciceronian manuscripts from Lodi and to take up a teaching appointment at the behest of Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan. Barzizza was now something of a grey eminence, paid homage from all sides. His reputation had been made in Padua and he was still to be an active, prominent figure amidst the flourishing humanist studies in Lombardy in the 1420s. It is worth pursuing his career for these reasons alone, but also because the chronology of the last years, like that of the early ones, has not yet been properly established; indeed, it is sometimes hard to be certain of his whereabouts, and even the exact date of his death has not yet been established. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |