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Castellani, Castellano de'

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CASTELLANI, CASTELLANO de'. - Priest, poet, author of sacred plays, b. probably in Prato in 1461, d. perhaps in 1519. He held the extraordinary lectureship in canon law at the University of Pisa from 1489, knew Girolamo Savonarola and for a time shared his ideas, was a friend of the Medici, and from 1498 was vicar of the bishop of Fiesole.

The best collection of his poetic compositions appeared in Venice in 1521 under the title Opera spirituale di m. C. de' C. But chiefly worthy of mention remain his sacred plays: St. Euphrasius, St. Onuphrius (Storia di s. Onofrio, in Le sacre rappresentazioni ital., edited by M. Bonfantini, Milan 1942, pp. 498-535), as well as the versification of the Sunday Gospels (Florence 1514).

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BIBL.: F. Torraca, Il teatro italiano del sec. XIII, XIV XV, Florence 1885; F. Avonto, La vita di C. C., in Rivista delle biblioteche e degli archivi, 2 (1924), p. 92 ff.

Giannina Spellanzon

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 1018.

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Spellanzon, Giannina. “Castellani, castellano de'.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1018. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/castellani-castellano-de.

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Spellanzon, Giannina. “Castellani, castellano de'.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1018. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/castellani-castellano-de.

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  author    = {Spellanzon, Giannina},
  title     = {Castellani, castellano de'},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {1018},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/castellani-castellano-de}
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