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Lapo's translation of Fabius Maximus
Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger (1406 – October 1438) was a
Renaissance humanist and translator from
Greek into
Latin . A grandson of
Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder , he was probably born in
Florence . He was a pupil of
Francesco Filelfo at the
University of Bologna in 1428.
[1] He wrote a scurrilous deadpan satiric dialogue on the
papal curia , De curiae commodis (1438), "On the benefits of the Curia".
[2] There also survives a collection of his letters.
[3]
Works he translated include:
the biographies of
Solon ,
Themistocles ,
Pericles ,
Fabius Maximus ,
Publicola ,
Theseus ,
Romulus ,
Aratus and
Artaxerxes I from
Plutarch 's
Parallel Lives
[1]
Several of Lucian's works : De fletu , De somnio , De sacrificiis , De tyranno , Calumnia , De longaevis , Patriae laudatio and Demonactis vita
[1]
Isocrates : Nicocles , Ad Nicoclem and Oratio ad Daemonicum
[1]
Josephus ,
Jewish Wars
[1]
Theophrastus , Liber de impressionibus
[1]
Demosthenes , Oratio funebris
[1]
Xenophon , Praefectus equitum
[1]
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h Riccardo Fubini,
"Castiglionchio, Lapo da, detto il Giovane" , Dizionario biografico degli italiani , Vol. 22 (Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1979).
^ The work in Latin with an English translation is the subject of
Christopher Celenza ,
Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger's De curiae commodis (1999).
^ Elizabeth May McCahill, "Finding a Job as a Humanist: The Epistolary Collection of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger", Renaissance Quarterly , Vol. 57, No. 4 (2004), pp. 1308–1345.
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