ADRIANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. - Florentine historian (1513-79), son of the humanist Marcello da Virgilio. In the siege of Florence of 1530 he was among the defenders of the city against the imperial-papal army, but later he drew close to the Medici, who esteemed and protected him.
In 1549 he obtained the chair of eloquence at the Studio Fiorentino, and, on the death of Varchi, by commission of Cosimo I, he wrote the Istoria de' suoi tempi, which appeared posthumously, edited by his son Marcello (Florence, Giunti, 1583, and then Venice, Giunti, 1587). Divided into 22 books, it narrates the most notable events from 1536 to 1574, continuing that of Guicciardini. In it the A. reveals himself as a historian of good sense and of a certain intuition in understanding the age in which he lived. Some Latin orations also remain from him.
Bibliography3 worksA. Bartoli, Scritti rari di G. B. A. e di Marcello, Bologna 1871; G. Mondasini, L'Istoria de' suoi tempi di G. B. A., Torino 1905; M. Lupo-G
BIBL.: A. Bartoli, Scritti rari di G. B. A. e di Marcello, Bologna 1871; G. Mondasini, L'Istoria de' suoi tempi di G. B. A., Torino 1905; M. Lupo-Gentile, Studi sulla storiografia fiorentina alla Corte di Cosimo de' Medici, Pisa 1905.
Pasquazi, Silvio. “Adriani, giovanni battista.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 335. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/adriani-giovanni-battista.
MLA
Pasquazi, Silvio. “Adriani, giovanni battista.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 335. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/adriani-giovanni-battista.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_adriani_giovanni_battista,
author = {Pasquazi, Silvio},
title = {Adriani, giovanni battista},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {335},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/adriani-giovanni-battista}
}
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