Pietro Andrea Canonieri
Pietro Andrea Canonieri (1582–1630) was an Italian writer of Baroque treatises on morality, politics and poetry.
Life[edit]
Canonieri was born at Rossiglione (Genoa) in the second half of the 16th century, the son of a doctor.[1] He studied medicine in Genoa and law in Parma, began his literary career in Florence, and then studied theology in Rome.[1] By December 1611, he was living in the Low Countries, practicing medicine in Antwerp.[2] He died there in 1639.[1]
Works[edit]
- Epistolarum laconicarum libri quattuor (Florence, 1607)
- De curiosa doctrina (Florence, 1607)
- Le lodi e i biasimi del vino (Viterbo, 1608)
- Il perfetto Cortegiano et dell'Uffizio del Prencipe verso il Cortegiano (Rome, 1609)
- Quaestiones ac Discursus in duos primos libros C. Cornelii Taciti (Rome, 1609)
- Reprinted as Dissertationes politicae ac Discursus varii in C. Taciti Annalium (Frankfurt, 1610)[3]
- Delle Cause dell'infelicità e disgrazie de gli huomini letterati e guerrieri (Antwerp, 1612)
- Flores illustrium epitaphiorium ex praeclarissimarum totius Europae civitatum et praestantissimorum poetarum monumentis excerpti (Antwerp, Joachim Trognaesius, 1613)[4]
- Dell'introduzione alla politica, alla ragion di stato et alla pratica del buon governo (Antwerp, 1614; reprinted 1627)[5]
- Flores illustrium axiomatum, sententiarum ac similitudinum politicarum (Antwerp, 1615)[6]
- In septem Aphorismorum Hippocratis libros, Medicae, Politicae, Morales ac Theologicae, interpretationes (Antwerp, 1617-1618).[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Valerio Castronovo, Canonieri, Pietro Andrea, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 18 (1975)
- ^ De geneeskunde in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (1475-1660), exhibition catalogue (Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 1990), p. 91.
- ^ Dissertationes politicae (1610) on Google Books
- ^ Flores illustrium epitaphiorium (1613) on Google Books.
- ^ Dell'introduzione alla politica (1614) and Dell'introduzzione alla politica (1627) on Google Books
- ^ Flores illustrium axiomatum (1615) on Google Books
- ^ Volume 1 and volume 2 on Google Books)