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Nardinus Celineus, De situ Iadrae (1508)

Nardino Celinese from Maniago in Friuli was a less known Italian Renaissance humanist and a magister publicus, a teacher in the local school, in Zadar c. 1508-1521. Nardino wrote in Latin. During his lifetime he published only three shorter texts ; most of his works are preserved in a manuscript codex that is today in Osimo, Biblioteca Istituto Campana, ms. 18. L. 13. A number of Nardino's poems are dedicated to persons from Zadar (from the families Soppe, Detrico, Ciprianis, Gallelo, Benja, Grisogono) or to Venetian administrators of Zadar in 1510-1516 (L. Correr, G. Minotto, B. Bondumier, L. Michiel, F. Foscari, A. da Mula) ; the codex also preserves Nardino's polemic waged against his fellow teacher in Zadar Palladio Fosco (or Negri, 1450-1520). I will interpret Nardino's longer elegy (118 verses), ff. 67r-69v of the codex. The elegy bears the title "P. N. C. De situ Iadrae carmen ad Marium uatem celeberrimum strenui Bartholomaei Liuiani ducis Venetorum". I will show what we can know about the addressee and his patron (mentioned in the title), present the quite heterogeneous content of the poem, and explain its humanist aspects, from its learned allusions to its language and the way it treats figures of Greek and Roman antiquity. The text and commentary that I will use belongs to a digital edition of Nardino's poem that is currently being prepared.

Zadar, elegy, Neo-Latin literature

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