Pietro Andrea Canonieri (1582–1630) was an Italian writer of Baroque treatises on morality, politics and poetry.
Life edit
Canonieri was born at Rossiglione (Genoa) in the second half of the 16th century, the son of a doctor.[1] He studied medicine in Genoa and law in Parma, began his literary career in Florence, and then studied theology in Rome.[1] By December 1611, he was living in the Low Countries, practicing medicine in Antwerp.[2] He died there in 1639.[1]
Works edit
- Epistolarum laconicarum libri quattuor (Florence, 1607)
- De curiosa doctrina (Florence, 1607)
- Le lodi e i biasimi del vino (Viterbo, 1608)
- Il perfetto Cortegiano et dell'Uffizio del Prencipe verso il Cortegiano (Rome, 1609)
- Quaestiones ac Discursus in duos primos libros C. Cornelii Taciti (Rome, 1609)
- Reprinted as Dissertationes politicae ac Discursus varii in C. Taciti Annalium (Frankfurt, 1610)[3]
- Delle Cause dell'infelicità e disgrazie de gli huomini letterati e guerrieri (Antwerp, 1612)
- Flores illustrium epitaphiorium ex praeclarissimarum totius Europae civitatum et praestantissimorum poetarum monumentis excerpti (Antwerp, Joachim Trognaesius, 1613)[4]
- Dell'introduzione alla politica, alla ragion di stato et alla pratica del buon governo (Antwerp, 1614; reprinted 1627)[5]
- Flores illustrium axiomatum, sententiarum ac similitudinum politicarum (Antwerp, 1615)[6]
- In septem Aphorismorum Hippocratis libros, Medicae, Politicae, Morales ac Theologicae, interpretationes (Antwerp, 1617-1618).[7]
References edit
- ^ a b c Valerio Castronovo, Canonieri, Pietro Andrea, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 18 (1975)
- ^ De geneeskunde in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (1475-1660), exhibition catalogue (Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 1990), p. 91.
- ^ Dissertationes politicae (1610) on Google Books
- ^ Flores illustrium epitaphiorium (1613) on Google Books.
- ^ Dell'introduzione alla politica (1614) and Dell'introduzzione alla politica (1627) on Google Books
- ^ Flores illustrium axiomatum (1615) on Google Books
- ^ Volume 1 and volume 2 on Google Books)