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Latin: Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus
MANZOLI (MANZOLLI), PIER ANGELO della STELLATA. - Poet, b. at La Stellata, near Ferrara, ca. 1500 and d. ca. 1543. Known under the pseudonym Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus, an anagram of the name identified in the eighteenth century from documents that have remained unknown, by Facciolati (v. bibl.).
He was perhaps a physician; in the time of Leo X he went to Rome, probably to study; in 1530 he was at Verrucchio near San Marino. Between 1520 and 1534 he composed the Zodiacus vitae (Venice 1535; more than 60 editions in Protestant countries), an allegorical-didactic poem in hexameters divided into 12 books, corresponding to the signs of the zodiac, in which the Supreme Good is treated according to Platonic doctrine, in opposition to Aristotelian principles. Not infrequently the design of the poem is lost, giving way to philosophical and pedagogical problems. Although M. did not belong to Lutheran sects, and in the dedication to Ercole II d'Este he humbly professes himself subject to the Church, he professed heterodox doctrines (metempsychosis; the world created by God ab aeterno, and not for man; sin does not offend God, etc.) and had knowledge and practice of occult sciences. His mortal remains were exhumed and burned. Pastor (v. bibl.) considers M. a "cryptoprotestant."
Bibliography6 worksJ. Facciolati, Epistolae lacinae, Padua 1785; F. Flamini, Spigolature d'erudizione e di critica, Florence 1895, pp. 153-161; E. Troilo, Un p
BIBL.: J. Facciolati, Epistolae lacinae, Padua 1785; F. Flamini, Spigolature d'erudizione e di critica, Florence 1895, pp. 153-161; E. Troilo, Un poeta filosofo del '500: Marcello Palingenio Stellato, Rome 1912; G. Borgiani, Marcello Palingenio Stellato e il suo poema lo «Zodiacus Vitae», Città di Castello 1913; G. Toffanin, Il Cinquecento, Milan 1941, pp. 56-58; Pastor, IV, p. 501.
Marchetti, Italiano. “Manzoli (Manzolli), pier angelo della stellata.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, coll. 1997–1998. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/manzoli-manzolli-pier-angelo-della-stellata.
MLA
Marchetti, Italiano. “Manzoli (Manzolli), pier angelo della stellata.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 1997–1998. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/manzoli-manzolli-pier-angelo-della-stellata.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_manzoli_manzolli_pier_angelo_d,
author = {Marchetti, Italiano},
title = {Manzoli (Manzolli), pier angelo della stellata},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {1997--1998},
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/manzoli-manzolli-pier-angelo-della-stellata}
}
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