Petrus Nannius Explained

Petrus Nannius
Native Name:Pieter Nanninck
Birth Date:1496
Birth Place:Alkmaar
Death Date:1557
Death Place:Leuven
Occupation:Humanist, Teacher
Rector of the Collegium Trilingue
Predecessor:Conrad Goclenius
Successor:Cornelius Valerius

Petrus Nannius (also Pieter Nanninck, b. 1496, Alkmaar - d. 1557) was a Dutch poet, accomplished Latin scholar and humanist of the 16th century.[1] A contemporary of Desiderius Erasmus, he was born in Alkmaar and was an important figure in the humanism of the time, having provided a foundation with his teaching for the later flowering of humanism in the region.[2]

Life

We first hear of Nannius teaching in Gouda, South Holland. His appointment here is considered a turning point in the humanism of Gouda, in that the humanistic spirit was being found less inside monasteries, and more in public, secular life.[3] In 1539, Nannius succeeded Conrad Goclenius as Latin teacher at the Collegium Trilingue,[1] where he taught renowned intellectuals of the age such as Jacobus Cruquius. Nannius was described by Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius as the first person to introduce a love of letters in the Collegium Trilingue.[4] Nannius served in this capacity from 1539 to his death in 1557.[5] [6] For his many scholarly endeavours, he could rely on the financial help of influential patrons, such as Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle.[7]

Works

Nannius was also a writer who wrote a commentary on the Ars Poetica of Horace, and saw in it many similarities to Menippean satire.[8] He translated the works of many Greek authors, including Aeschines, Plutarch, and Athanasius.[9] He also produced ten books of critical and explanatory Miscellanea, and commentaries on the Eclogues and fourth book of the Aeneid by Virgil.[4]

Selective bibliography

Philological Commentaries

Latin translations of Greek texts

Original literary output

Notes and References

  1. Book: Bietenholz . Peter G. . Deutscher . Thomas Brian . Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation . . 1-3 . 2003 . 93 . English . 9780802085771 . 2016-05-27.
  2. Book: MacKay . Angus . Goodman . Anthony . The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe . Addison-Wesley Longman, Limited . 1990 . 149 . English . registration . 9780582052819 . 2016-05-28.
  3. Book: Goudriaan , Koen . De Ridder-Symoens . Hilde . Goudriaan . Koen . Van Moolenbroek . J. J. . Tervoort . Ad . Education and learning in the Netherlands, 1400-1600: essays in honour of Hilde de Ridder-Symoens . The Gouda Circle of Humanists . . Brill's studies in intellectual history . 123 . 2004 . 156 . English . 9789004136441 . 2016-05-28.
  4. Book: Sandys , John Edwin . John Edwin Sandys

    . John Edwin Sandys . From the revival of learning to the end of the eighteenth century (in Italy, France, England, and the Netherlands) . At the University Press . A History of Classical Scholarship . 2 . 1908 . 215–216 . 9780524034224 . English . 2016-05-28.

  5. Book: Sandys , John Edwin . John Edwin Sandys

    . John Edwin Sandys . From the Revival of Learning to the End of the Eighteenth Century in Italy, France, England and the Netherlands . . A History of Classical Scholarship . 2 . 2011 . 215 . English . 9781108027090 . 2016-05-27.

  6. Feys. Xander. 2020. A Hippocrates for eight stuivers: On Petrus Nannius' library and the earliest known Leuven book auction (1557). De Gulden Passer. 98. 1. 239–257.
  7. Feys . Xander . A 16th-century Maecenas and his client. Three previously unedited letters from the Louvain professor Petrus Nannius (1496-1557) to his patron Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586). . Erudition and the Republic of Letters . 2022 . 7 . 3 . 265–301. 10.1163/24055069-07030001 . 252060501 .
  8. Book: de Smet , Ingrid A. R. . Menippean Satire and the Republic of Letters, 1581-1655 . . Travaux du Grand Siècle . 1996 . 33–34 . English . 9782600001472 . 1420-7699 . 2016-05-27.
  9. Encyclopedia: Landfester . Manfred . Cancik . Hubert . Schneider . Helmuth . Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World . 18 . 751 . . English . 2008 . Brill's New Pauly: Jap-Ode . 9789004142237 . 2016-05-27.
  10. Feys, Xander (2023). 'Reading Vergil through Homer: the Role of the Greek Language in Petrus Nannius’ Deuterologiae sive spicilegia.' In Trilingual learning: The study of Greek and Hebrew in a Latin world (1000-1700), ed. by R. Van Rooy, P. Van Hecke, and T. Van Hal, pp. 207-230. Turnhout: Brepols.
  11. Jaspers. Martijn. 2020. Lazy but Cruel: Oriental Stereotypes in Petrus Nannius' 'Declamatio de bello Turcis Inferendo' (Leuven: Rutger Rescius, 1536). Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance. LXXXII, no. 3. 515–533.
  12. Book: Jaspers, Martijn. Moeten we de Turken de oorlog verklaren? Petrus Nannius' 'Declamatio de bello Turcis inferendo (Leuven: Rutger Rescius, 1536). University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Faculty of Arts. 2020. Leuven.

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