Theology

Markus Schürer

Die Enzyklopädie der berühmten Männer und Frauen

Domenico Bandini, sein »Fons memorabilium universi« und die kompilatorische Biographik der Renaissance

[The Encyclopedia of Famous Men and Women. Domenico Bandini, His Fons memorabilium universi and the Compiled Biography of the Renaissance.]

unrevised e-book edition 2020; Original edition 2017; 2017. XV, 468 pages.

Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism, and the Reformation 97

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The scholar Domenico Bandini of Arezzo's Fons memorabilium universi, dating from around 1340–1418, is not only a work of enormous dimensions but also one of extraordinary content and layout. Markus Schürer opens up the life of Domenico Bandini by exploring the genesis and structure of his Fons. He thereby focuses on the biographical collections, which together constitute an important and exceptional testimony of Renaissance biography.
The scholar Domenico Bandini of Arezzo's Fons memorabilium universi, dating from around 1340–1418, is not only a work of enormous dimensions but also one of extraordinary content and layout. On the one hand it contains an encyclopedia of natural history, on the other, two comprehensive collections of biographies of renowned men and women. One could say that it is part medieval encyclopedia and part Renaissance biography compilation. Markus Schürer opens up the life of Domenico Bandini by exploring his position in Florence's humanistic milieu at the turn of the 14th to 15th century, and the genesis and structure of his Fons. He thereby focuses on the biographical collections, which together constitute an important and exceptional testimony of Renaissance biography.
Authors/Editors

Markus Schürer Geboren 1973; 1994–98 Studium der Geschichte und Germanistik; 1998 MA; 2004 Promotion; 2011–12 Forschungsaufenthalt in Rom als Stipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung; 2013 Habilitation im Fach Mittelalterliche Geschichte an der TU Dresden; derzeit Privatdozent an der Philosophischen Fakultät der TU Dresden.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven u. Bibliotheken — 98 (2018), S. 589–591 (Bernhard Schirg)
In: Medioevo Latino — 34 (2018), S.126–127
In: Sehepunkte — http://www.sehepunkte.de/2018/04/30656.html (Martin Wagendorfer)