Bernardino Baldi

Bernardino Baldi (5 June 1553 – 10 October 1617) was an Italian mathematician, poet, translator and priest.

Biography

Baldi descended from a noble family from Urbino, Marche, where he was born. He pursued his studies at Padua, and is said to have spoken about sixteen languages during his lifetime, though according to Tiraboschi the inscription on his tomb limits the number to twelve.

The appearance of the plague at Padua forced him to return to his native city. Shortly afterwards he was called to act as tutor to Ferrante Gonzaga, from whom he received the rich abbey of Guastalla. The oldest biography of Nicolaus Copernicus was completed on 7 October 1588 by him.^[2] He held office as abbot for 25 years, and then returned once again to Urbino. In 1612, he was employed by the duke as his envoy to Venice. Baldi died at Urbino on 12 October 1617.

He is said to have written upwards of a hundred different works, the chief part of which have remained unpublished. His various works show his abilities as a theologian, mathematician, geographer, antiquary, historian and poet. His Cronica dei Matematici, a collection of lives of mathematicians, from antiquity to his own time, was conceived in emulation of Vasari's Lives, and was intended to contain the lives of more than two hundred mathematicians. The work was not published in the Renaissance, but an abridgement appeared in Urbino in 1707. His life has been written of by Ireneo Affò and Giammaria Mazzucchelli, among others.

Writing

Scientific works

De gli automati, overo machine se moventi, Libri 2 (Venecia, 1589; repr. 1601), Sobre autómatas ; Autor: Héroe de Alejandría , traducido del griego.
Scamilli impares Vitruviani (Augsburgo, 1612)
De Vitruvianorum verborum significatione (Augsburgo, 1612) - también conocido como Lexicon Vitruvianum
Heronis Ctesibii Belopoeeca (Augsburgo, 1616)
In Mechanicala Aristotelis problemata exercitationes. (La Mecánica de Aristóteles) (Maguncia, 1621)
Cronica de matematici , overo Epitome dell'istoria delle vite loro (Urbino, 1707)

Otras obras

La corona dell'anno (Venecia, 1589)
Versi e Prose di Monsignor Bernardino Baldi da Urbino (Venecia, 1590)
Il Lauro, scherzo giouenile (Pavía, 1600)
La Deifobe, overo gli oracoli della Sibilla Cumea Monodia (Venecia, 1604) (Sobre los oráculos de la sibila de Cuma )
Il Diluvio universale, cantato, con nuova maniera di versi (Pavía, 1604)
Concetti morali (Roma, 1607)
Oratione di Bernardino Baldi... alla Serenità del nouvo Duce M. Antonio Memmo (Venecia, 1613)
In tabvlam aeneam Evgvbinam, lingua Hetrusca veteri perscriptam, divinatio (Augusta Vindelicorum, 1613)
La Náutica: Poema
Encomio della patria (1706)

Notas

1 2 Amaturo 1963 .
↑ Sobre las revoluciones, Fundamentos de la historia natural, Volumen 1, pág. 335, Nicolás Copérnico: Obras completas, Edward Rosen, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Referencias

Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Baldi, Bernardino" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11.ª ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Bernardino Baldi" . Enciclopedia Católica . Nueva York: Robert Appleton Company.
Rose, Rose y Wright, Un nuevo diccionario biográfico general (1857), págs. 46-48. (en Google Libros)
Amaturo, Raffaele (1963). «Baldí, Bernardino» . Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (en italiano). vol. 5: Bacca-Baratta. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana . OCLC 883370 .

Enlaces externos

Galerías en línea, Colecciones de Historia de la Ciencia, Bibliotecas de la Universidad de OklahomaImágenes de alta resolución de obras y/o retratos de Bernardino Baldi en formato .jpg y .tiff.

[DBI-1] 1 2 Amaturo 1963 .

[2] Sobre las revoluciones, Fundamentos de la historia natural, Volumen 1, pág. 335, Nicolás Copérnico: Obras completas, Edward Rosen, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

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