Giovan Paolo Parisio (1470–1522), who used the classicised
pseudonym
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Aulo Giano Parrasio or Aulus Janus Parrhasius, was a
humanist
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scholar and grammarian from
Cosenza
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, in
Calabria
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in southern Italy. He was thus sometimes known as "Cosentius". He was a member of the
Accademia Pontaniana
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of
Naples
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, and founded the
Accademia Cosentina, an ''accademia'' or
learned society
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in Cosenza, in 1511–12.
He was resident in
Milan
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in the first years of the sixteenth century, and was noted as a teacher. He married a daughter of
Demetrius Chalcondyles
Demetrios Chalkokondyles ( ), Latinized as Demetrius Chalcocondyles and found variously as Demetricocondyles, Chalcocondylas or Chalcondyles (14239 January 1511), was one of the most eminent Greek scholars in the West. He taught in Italy for ov ...
.
[Julia Gaisser (2003]
Review of
''Parrhasiana II'', collection by Giancarlo Abbamonte, Lucia Gualdo Rosa, Luigi Munzi. ''Atti del II Seminario di Studi su Manoscritti Medievali e Umanistici della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli. Napoli, 20-21 ottobre 2000''. Naples: Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli (AION), 2002. ISBN ISSN 1128-7209. Accessed August 2015.
He is known for his
commentary
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on the ''De Raptu Proserpinae'' of
Claudian
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. Some letters of his on philology were later published, in 1567, as ''Liber De rebus epistolam quaesitis''. His book ''Oratio ad Patritios Neapolitanos'' was dedicated to the Italian humanist
Antonio Seripando
Antonio Seripando (1476–1531) was an Italian Renaissance humanist and book collector.
Seripando was the eldest son of Giovanni Ferdinando and Isabella Luisa Galeota, minor nobility living in the Porta Capuana district of Naples. His parents die ...
(1476–1531), the brother of the Augustinian friar
Girolamo Seripando and the beloved disciple of Master
Francesco Pucci
Francesco Pucci (1543 – 5 July 1597) was an Italian philosopher and humanist.
Life
Pucci was born in Figline Valdarno. He was of the same family as the Cardinals Lorenzo Pucci, Roberto Pucci, and Antonio Pucci. He worked began in a mercantil ...
.
References
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1470 births
1522 deaths
Italian Renaissance humanists