Petrus Nannius
Petrus Nannius | |
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Pieter Nanninck | |
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Born | 1496 Alkmaar |
Died | 1557 Leuven |
Occupation(s) | Humanist, Teacher |
Title | Rector of the Collegium Trilingue |
Predecessor | Conrad Goclenius |
Successor | Cornelius Valerius |
Petrus Nannius (also Pieter Nanninck, b. 1496, Alkmaar - d. 1557) was a Dutch poet, accomplished Latin scholar and humanist of the 16th century.[1] A contemporary of Desiderius Erasmus, he was born in Alkmaar and was an important figure in the humanism of the time, having provided a foundation with his teaching for the later flowering of humanism in the region.[2]
We first hear of Nannius teaching in Gouda, South Holland. His appointment here is considered a turning point in the humanism of Gouda, in that the humanistic spirit was being found less inside monasteries, and more in public, secular life.[3] In 1539, Nannius succeeded Conrad Goclenius as Latin teacher at the Collegium Trilingue,[1] where he taught renowned intellectuals of the age such as Jacobus Cruquius. Nannius was described by Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius as the first person to introduce a love of letters in the Collegium Trilingue.[4] Nannius served in this capacity from 1539 to his death in 1557.[5][6]
Works
Nannius was also a writer who wrote a commentary on the Ars Poetica of Horace, and saw in it many similarities to Menippean satire.[7] He translated the works of many Greek authors, including Aeschines, Plutarch, and Athanasius.[8] He also produced ten books of critical and explanatory Miscellanea, and commentaries on the Eclogues and fourth book of the Aeneid by Virgil.[4]
Selective bibliography
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Philological Commentaries
- Vergil: Aeneis IV (1544),[10] Bucolica (1559, published posthumously)
- Livy: Ab Urbe condita III (1545)
- Cicero: In Verrem (1546)
- Σύμμικτα or Miscellanea (1548)
- Horace: Ars poetica (1608, published posthumously)
Latin translations of Greek texts
- Lucian: 7 Dialogues of the Gods and 4 Dialogues of the Sea Gods (1528)
- Basil of Caesarea: several homilies (1538 and 1539)
- Plutarch: Lives of Phocion and Cato the Younger (1540)
- Athenagoras: On the Resurrection of the Dead (1541, editio princeps)
- Athanasius: Complete works (1556)
Original literary output
- Vinctus (1522)
- Declamatio de Bello Turcis Inferendo (1535/6)[11][12]
- Orationes tres (1541)
- Dialogismi heroinarum (1541 and 1550)
- Declamatio quodlibetica, de aeternitate mundi (1549)
- Dream orations (1611, published posthumously)
- Somnium, sive Paralipomena Virgilii: Res Inferae a Poeta relictae
- Somnium alterum In lib. Il Lucretii Praefatio
Notes
- ^ a b Bietenholz, Peter G.; Deutscher, Thomas Brian, eds. (2003). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Vol. 1–3. University of Toronto Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780802085771. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
- ^ MacKay, Angus; Goodman, Anthony, eds. (1990). The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe. Addison-Wesley Longman, Limited. pp. 149. ISBN 9780582052819. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
- ^ Goudriaan, Koen (2004). "The Gouda Circle of Humanists". In De Ridder-Symoens, Hilde; Goudriaan, Koen; Van Moolenbroek, J. J.; Tervoort, Ad (eds.). Education and learning in the Netherlands, 1400-1600: essays in honour of Hilde de Ridder-Symoens. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Vol. 123. Brill Publishers. p. 156. ISBN 9789004136441. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
- ^ a b Sandys, John Edwin (1908). From the revival of learning to the end of the eighteenth century (in Italy, France, England, and the Netherlands). A History of Classical Scholarship. Vol. 2. At the University Press. pp. 215–216. ISBN 9780524034224. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
- ^ Sandys, John Edwin (2011). From the Revival of Learning to the End of the Eighteenth Century in Italy, France, England and the Netherlands. A History of Classical Scholarship. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 215. ISBN 9781108027090. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
- ^ Feys, Xander (2020). "A Hippocrates for eight stuivers: On Petrus Nannius' library and the earliest known Leuven book auction (1557)". De Gulden Passer. 98 (1): 239–257.
- ^ de Smet, Ingrid A. R. (1996). Menippean Satire and the Republic of Letters, 1581-1655. Travaux du Grand Siècle. Librairie Droz. pp. 33–34. ISBN 9782600001472. ISSN 1420-7699. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
- ^ Landfester, Manfred; Cancik, Hubert; Schneider, Helmuth, eds. (2008). "Brill's New Pauly: Jap-Ode". Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Vol. 18. Brill Publishers. p. 751. ISBN 9789004142237. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
- ^ KU Leuven Libraries, Ms. 1001 (1545). "Paralipomena Vergili sive De rebus inferis a poeta relictis".
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Feys, Xander (forthcoming). 'Reading Vergil through Homer: the Role of the Greek Language in Petrus Nannius’ Deuterologiae sive spicilegia.' In Trilingual learning: The study of Greek and Hebrew in a Latin world (1000-1700), ed. by R. Van Rooy, P. Van Hecke, and T. Van Hal. Turnhout: Brepols.
- ^ Jaspers, Martijn (2020). "Lazy but Cruel: Oriental Stereotypes in Petrus Nannius' 'Declamatio de bello Turcis Inferendo' (Leuven: Rutger Rescius, 1536)". Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance. LXXXII, no. 3: 515–533.
- ^ Jaspers, Martijn (2020). Moeten we de Turken de oorlog verklaren? Petrus Nannius' 'Declamatio de bello Turcis inferendo (Leuven: Rutger Rescius, 1536). Leuven: University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Faculty of Arts.
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