Aulo Giano Parrasio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Aulo Giano Parrasio

Italian humanist

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1470

Place of Birth: Figline Vegliaturo, Calabria, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer, historian, editor, Renaissance humanist, philosopher, philologist, classical philologist, opinion journalist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Aulo Giano Parrasio

  • Giovan Paolo Parisio (1470–1522), who used the classicised pseudonym Aulo Giano Parrasio or Aulus Janus Parrhasius, was a humanist scholar and grammarian from Cosenza, in Calabria in southern Italy.
  • He was thus sometimes known as "Cosentius".
  • He was a member of the Accademia Pontaniana of Naples, and founded the Accademia Cosentina, an accademia or learned society in Cosenza, in 1511–12.:20He was resident in Milan in the first years of the sixteenth century, and was noted as a teacher.
  • He married a daughter of Demetrius Chalcondyles.He is known for his commentary on the De Raptu Proserpinae of Claudian.
  • 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 (1476-1531), the brother of the Augstinain monk Girolamo and the beloved disciple of Master Francesco Pucci.

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