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See also:JOHN OF See also:RAVENNA . Two distinct persons of this name, formerly confused and identified with a third (See also:anonymous)
Ravennese in See also:Petrarch's letters, lived at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th See also:century.
1. A See also:young Ravennese See also:born about 1347, who in 1364 went to live with Petrarch as secretary. In 1367 he set out to see the See also:world and make a name for himself, returned in a See also:state of destitution, but, growing restless again, See also:left his employer for, See also:good in 1368. He is not mentioned again in Petrarch's corre-' spondence, unless a See also:letter " to a certain wanderer " (vago cuidam),
congratulating him on his arrival at See also:Rome in 1373, is addressed to him.
2. Son of Conversanus (Conversinus, Convertinus). He is first heard of (Nov. 17, 1368) as appointed to the See also:professor-See also:ship of See also:rhetoric at See also:Florence, where he had for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time held the See also:post of See also:notary at the courts of See also:justice. This differentiates him from M. He entered (c. 1370) the service of the ducal See also:house of See also:Padua, the Carraras, in which he continued at least until 1404, although the whole of that See also:period was not spent in Padua. From 1375 to 1379 he was a schoolmaster at See also:Belluno, and was dismissed as too good for his post and not adapted for teaching boys. On the 22nd of See also:March 1382, he was appointed professor of rhetoric at Padua. During the struggle between the Carraras and Viscontis, he spent five years at See also:Udine (1387–1392). From 1395–1404 he was See also:chancellor of See also:Francis of See also:Carrara, and is heard of for the last time in 1406 as living at See also:Venice. His See also:history of the Carraras, a tasteless See also:production in barbarous Latin, says little for his See also:literary capacity; but as a teacher he enjoyed a See also:great
reputation, amongst his pupils being Vittorino da See also:Feltre and See also:Guarino of See also:Verona.
3. Malpaghini (De Malpaghinis), the most important. Born about 1356, he was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Petrarch from a very See also:early See also:age to 1374. On the 19th of See also:September 1397 he was appointed professor of rhetoric and eloquence at Florence. On the 9th of See also:June 1412, on the re-opening of the studio, which had been shut from 1405 to 1411 owing to the See also:plague, his See also:appointment was renewed for five years, before the expiration of which period he died (May 1417). Although Malpaghini left nothing behind him, he did
much to encourage the study of Latin; among his pupils was See also:Poggio See also:Bracciolini.
The See also:local documents and other authorities on the subject will be found in E. T. Klette, Beitrage zur Geschichte tsnd Litteratur der italienischen Gelehrtenrenaissance, vol. i. (1888); see also G. Voigt, See also:Die Wiederbelebung See also:des klassischen Altertums, who, however, identifies (I) and (2).
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