GIANNOTTI, DONATO. - Man of letters, b. in Florence on 27 Nov. 1492, d. in Rome on 27 Dec. 1573. A follower of Savonarola and an opponent of the Medici, in 1527 he became secretary of the Ten as Machiavelli had been before him; after the fall of the Florentine Republic he had to go into exile.

Besides youthful verse, he wrote comedies (Il vecchio amoroso, the Milesia) and principally political treatises

(Il libro della Repubblica de' Viniziani; the 4 books Della Repubblica fiorentina), in which he upholds and ideally outlines republican institutions. Also important for the study of Michelangelo, who is an interlocutor in them, are the Dialoghi de' giorni che Dante consumò nel cercare l'Inferno e il Purgatorio. An Epitome historiae ecclesiasticae remains unpublished.

Bibliography4 works

BIBL.: Opere: Opere poetiche e letterarie di D. G., edited by F. Polidori, with a Discorso biografico by A. Vannucci, Florence 1850; Lettere di D. G. a Pier Vettori, published by R. Ridolfi and C. Roth, ibid. 1932. On his life and works, besides the aforementioned Discorso by Vannucci, see: G. Sanesi, La vita e le opere di D. G., Pistoia 1899; E. Zanoni, D. G. nella vita e negli scritti, Rome 1900; G. Biasus, Per una ristampa dei « Dialoghi » di D. G., in Convivium, 12 (1940), pp. 36-43. On his relations with Michelangelo: G. Papini, La vita di Michelangiolo nella vita del suo tempo, Milan 1949, p. 403 ff.

Italiano Marchetti

@incollection{ec6_giannotti_donato, author = {Marchetti, Italiano}, title = {Giannotti, donato}, booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica}, volume = {VI}, pages = {347--348}, note = {Cited by column}, publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico}, address = {Città del Vaticano}, year = {1951}, url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/giannotti-donato} }

One of some 20,000 entries brought back from the twelve printed volumes (1948–54). Spotted something? Help us improve it.

Giannotti, Donato

About this entry