Giovanni Beyond Put

Giovanni della Casa (born the June 28th 1503 in the Mugello, close to Florence, Tuscan - died the November 14th 1556) was a prelate and an Italian literary man of the Renaissance.

Biography

Giovanni Della Casa was named in 1544 archbishop of Bénévent and became Secretary of State under Paul IV. There are of him several works written with elegance, such as:

Galatée or manner of living in the world , translated by François de Belleforest;
Of officiis inter potentiores and tenuiores amicos , translated into Italian by the author even;
of the Italian lyric Poésies , that Gilles Ménage commented on.

After its death, it is his/her friend Piero Vettori who in the long term carried out the edition of his Latin works, Ioannis Casæ Latina monimenta, quorum partim uersibus, partim soluta oratione scripta sunt , Florentiæ, in officina Iuntarum, Bernardi filiorum, 1564,4° The most complete edition of its works is that of Venice, 1752, 3 volumes in-4.

Its Galateo had a great repercussion at the time of its exit and during several tens of years; it was as famous, even more, as It Cortigiano of Baldassare Castiglione.

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