Zanobi Acciaioli (25 May 1461 – 27 July 1519) was an Italian

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, a member of the

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family of

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. He was Librarian of the Vatican under

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. He joined the Dominican convent on 8 December 1495. He learned

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and

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towards the latter part of his life, and was appointed in 1518 prefect of the Vatican Library. Acciaioli worked mainly on translating

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texts, including Olympiodorus on

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, a treatise of

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against Hierocles, and

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's ''Cure of the false Opinions of the Gentiles'', and some other pieces. He died at the age of 58 in Rome. In addition to his translations, Acciaiuoli also wrote a

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on the city of

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; a ''Liber de vindicta Dei contra peccatores''; and poems. Acciaiuoli's own copy of his translation of Eusebius is in the Vatican Library. It includes corrections and annotations by him, and is signed on the title page, "F. Zenobii Acciolj". __NOTOC__

Works

Translations

. ''In Hieroclem''. Dedicated to

Lorenzo de' Medici Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (), known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (; 1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492), was an Italian statesman, the ''de facto'' ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Lore ...

. First published by Aldus in 1504. * Olympiodorus. ''In Ecclesiasten''. (Henri Estienne, 1512) *

. ''De curatione Graecarum affectionum libri duodecim''. (Paris, Henri Estienne, July 1519) *

. ''De providentia Dei libri X''.

Writings

*Acciaiuoli, Zanobi. ''Liber de vindicta Dei contra peccatores''.

References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Acciaioli, Zanobi 1461 births 1519 deaths Zanobi Politicians from Florence Italian Dominicans Italian librarians 16th-century Italian translators 16th-century Italian male writers Greek–Latin translators