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The blessed G. B. Spagnuolo, prior general of the Carmelites, is perhaps better known to English-speakers as Baptista Mantuanus or Baptist Mantuan, the author of ten eclogues (collectively entitled _Adulescentia_) that were enormously popular in sixteenth-century western Europe as school texts and somewhat popular for several centuries thereafter. Several of his other poems were also widely used in educational contexts, perhaps most notably his _Parthenice Mariana_ and _Parthenice Cathariniana_ (which is not to say that any of these is really kid lit.). Most of the ca. 55,000 to 60,000 lines of Mantuan's Latin verse lack a modern critical edition.
Best,
John Dillon
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:06:47 -0800 Phyllis wrote:
>Today (20. March) is the feast day of:
>Giovanni Baptista Spagnuolo (d. 1516) (blessed) Giovanni, who was
>beatified in 1885, was born in Mantua and studied in Padua. He became a
>Carmelite. Credited with the gift of counsel, in 1513 he became prior
>general of the order. Giovanni is most noted as a Latin poet and eminent
>Christian humanist.
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