Giovanni Battista Chiodini
Appearance
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Giovanni Battista Chiodini or Chiodino (died 1652)[1] was an Italian Franciscan friar and writer.
A Conventual Franciscan and Inquisitor from Monte Milone (now Pollenza),[2] he wrote about music theory (Arte pratica latina e volgare di far contrapunto, 1610),[3]: 221 astronomy and mathematics (Praxis sphaerica clarissima, 1615),[4] theology, philosophy and literature, and composed poems in Italian and Latin (La nobiltà burghesia romana, 1620).[2]
His Arte pratica of 1610 was translated into German by Johann Andreas Herbst, and published as Arte prattica et poëtica, das ist: ein kurzer Unterricht, wie man einen Contrapunct machen und komponieren sol lernen in 1653.[3]: 406 [5]
Works
[edit]- Arte pratica latina et volgare di far contrapunto à mente, & à penna (in Latin and Italian). Venice: Ricciardo Amadino. 1610.
- Praxis sphaerica clarissima (in Latin). Venice: Ambrogio & Bartolomeo Dei. 1615.
- Pupilla phylosophiae Aristotelis (in Latin). Venice: Ambrogio Dei. 1617.
- Thalamus rationalis (in Latin). Venice: Pietro Farri. 1620.
- La nobiltà burghesia romana (in Italian and Latin). Macerata: Stamperia del Martellini. 1620.
References
[edit]- ^ "Chiodino, Giovanni Battista, O.F.M.Conv., m. 1652". opac.vatlib.it. Vatican Library. Archived from the original on 2021-02-12.
- ^ a b "CHIODINI Gio. Battista". Biblioteca picena o sia notizie istoriche delle opere e degli scrittori piceni (in Italian). Vol. 3. Osimo: Domenicantonio Quercetti. 1793. pp. 206–207.
- ^ a b François Lesure (editor) (1971). Ecrits imprimés concernant la musique, volume I, A–L. Répertoire international des sources musicales, part B:vi. München-Duisburg: G. Henle Verlag.
- ^ Pietro Riccardi (1870). "CHIODINI Gio. Battista". Biblioteca matematica italiana dalla origine della stampa ai primi anni del secolo XIX (in Italian). Modena: Tipografia dell'erede Soliani. p. 351.
- ^ Johann Andreas Herbst (1653). Arte prattica et poëtica, das ist: ein kurzer Unterricht, wie man einen Contrapunct machen und komponieren sol lernen (in German). Frankfurt: Anton Humm (Thomas Matthias Götze).