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Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger

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Lapo's translation of Fabius Maximus

Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger (1406 – October 1438) was a Renaissance humanist and translator from Greek into Latin. A grandson of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, he was probably born in Florence. He was a pupil of Francesco Filelfo at the University of Bologna in 1428.[1] He wrote a scurrilous deadpan satiric dialogue on the papal curia, De curiae commodis (1438), "On the benefits of the Curia".[2] There also survives a collection of his letters.[3]

Works he translated include:

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Riccardo Fubini, "Castiglionchio, Lapo da, detto il Giovane", Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Vol. 22 (Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1979).
  2. ^ The work in Latin with an English translation is the subject of Christopher Celenza, Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger's De curiae commodis (1999).
  3. ^ Elizabeth May McCahill, "Finding a Job as a Humanist: The Epistolary Collection of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger", Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 4 (2004), pp. 1308–1345. JSTOR 4143697