Bust of Pontano by Adriano Fiorentino, in the Museo di Sant'Agostino di Genova [it]
Born
1426 or 1429
Cerreto di Spoleto, Papal States (now in Umbria)
Died
1503
Naples, Kingdom of Naples
Nationality
Spoleto
Other names
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
Latin: Ioannes Iovianus Pontanus
Occupation(s)
poet, humanist
Known for
Accademia Pontaniana, poetry
Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), later known as Giovanni Gioviano (Latin: Ioannes Iovianus Pontanus), was a humanist and poet from Cerreto di Spoleto, in central Italy. He was the leading figure of the Accademia Pontaniana after the death of Antonio Beccadelli in 1471, and the academy took his name.
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Maggiore alla Pietrasanta. The chapel was built in 1492 by humanist GiovanniPontano as funerary chapel for his beloved wife Adriana Sassone. The architects...
alphabet". It was first coined in a Latin dialogue by the Italian humanist GiovanniPontano in the 15th century. Alliteration is used in the alliterative verse...
for eight people!" The most common interpretation, first argued by GiovanniPontano, was simply the scholar giving the silversmith a bizarre and useless...
GiovanniPontano, a distinguished writer, and his beautiful wife Lidia visit their dying friend Tommaso Garani in a hospital in Milan. Giovanni's new...
father's humanist court. His tutor between 1468 and 1475 was the humanist GiovanniPontano, whose De principe describes the proper virtues and manner of life...
which gave examples of leadership behavior to educate future rulers. GiovanniPontano, Bartolomeo Sacchi, Leon Battista Alberti and Baldassare Castiglione...
and trans. Mary P. Chatfield, trans. Betty Radice, 2005 Baiae, Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, ed. and trans. Dennis G. Rodney, 2006 Letters, Volume 1, Angelo...
V was a patron of the arts. He founded the Academy of Naples under GiovanniPontano, and for his entrance into the city in 1443 had a magnificent triumphal...
planet Jovians, a non-playable race in Eve Online Iovianus Pontanus (GiovanniPontano), an Italian humanist poet Jovian Chronicles, a science-fiction game...
period, with many of whom he formed working collaborations. One friend, GiovanniPontano, dedicated a work to him, entitled Ægidius. Antonini is famous in ecclesiastical...
Spoleto was taken by the troops fighting for the unification of Italy. GiovanniPontano, founder of the Accademia Pontaniana of Naples, was born in the town;...
bell'Antonio Antonio Magnano Adua and Friends Piero Salvagni 1961 La notte GiovanniPontano L'assassino Alfredo Martelli Fantasmi a Roma Reginaldo di Roviano /...
GiovanniPontano, Antonio Beccadelli and many others. The Panormita was the second secretary of the King and President of the Chamber . Il Pontano succeeded...
Renaissance saw the essay taken up by figures like Guarino da Verona and GiovanniPontano. Edward Gibbon, who wrote of “the inimitable Lucian”, owned the 1776...
in Naples during the revival of classical learning and later led by GiovanniPontano who gave it a more official character to the meetings. The Accademia...
playing a guest at a party celebrating the publication of protagonist GiovanniPontano (Marcello Mastroianni)'s new book by Bompiani (where Eco was an editor...
Porticus Antoniana, later known as the Accademia Pontaniana, after GiovanniPontano. The 16th century saw at Rome a great increase of literary and aesthetic...
forces near Rome. In the Accademia Pontaniana that collected around GiovanniPontano (Jovianus Pontanus), he took the classicizing nom de plume of Actius...
manuscript to use in the Vivian Bible. In 1448, the Italian humanist GiovanniPontano studied and collected the manuscript. At that time, as the manuscript...
(October 1502) Urania, Meteora, The Gardens of the Hesperides, etc., GiovanniPontano (May–August 1505) On Hunting, Adriano Castellesi (September 1505) Adages...
pedants—and characters from humanist satirists, chiefly Erasmus and GiovanniPontano. The play's depiction of alchemy bears some passing resemblance to...