Persons known by name
Atanagi, Dionigi
Dionigi Atanagi
- poet
- student and close friend of Claudio Tolomei with whom he collaborated in 1539 for the Versi et regole de la nuova poesia toscana [online], containing poems by (among others) Atanagi to Spica, Molza, Tolomei, Caro…)
- in Rome since c. the end of 1532, presumably as a secretary to a cleric.
- was made to a Roman citizen by pope Julius III (date unknown?)
- went to Macerata as the secretary of G. Guidiccioni in 1540.
- secretary at the Vatican conclave of 1555 when Marcello Cervini was elected as Pope Marcellus II.
- source of the information that an Accademia de lo Studio de l'Architettura existed in Rome (at least) during the papacy of Paul III:
http://accademia-vitruviana.net/bibliography/atanagi-1565/ll2v-ll3r
- DBI: "Di altre opere linguistico-grammaticali progettate, abbozzate o perdute [di Claudio Tolomei] rimangono tracce nelle lettere e in alcuni manoscritti, come quello contenente il Trattato del raddoppiamento, dedicato a Dionigi Atanagi e composto tra 1546 e 1547."
- his collection of letters by famous contemporaries was re-published and extended by Girolamo Ruscelli and others several times.
- Presented his ideas about the importance of (the study of) history [Ragionamento sulle eccellenza e perfezione della storia] to the Venetian Accademia della Fama in 1559 (and, according to Claudio Mutini/DBI) even became its secretary.
- friend of Cenci, Spica, Faerno …
- Web links:
