Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Riccardo Fubini, "Castiglionchio, Lapo da, detto il Giovane", Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Vol. 22 (Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1979).
2. 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).
3. 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.