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Ermolao Barbaro (Hermolaus Barbarus) (
May 21,
1454—
June 14,
1493 or
1495) was an
Italian Renaissance scholar.
Biography
This member of the noble Venetian
Barbaro family was born in
Venice, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro, and the grandson of
Francesco Barbaro. At an early age he was sent to
Rome, where he studied under
Pomponius Laetus. He completed his education at the
University of Padua, where he was appointed professor of
philosophy in 1477. He was responsible for transations of aristotle's philosophy and fueled Renaissance enlightenment with his seminal work
Castigationes Plinianae (
The Castigations of Pliny) which noted many inaccuracies in the scientific work of the ancient Roman,
Pliny the elder. Two years later he revisited Venice, but returned to
Padua when the
plague broke out in his native city.
He was sent on various missions to persons of high rank, amongst them
Pope Innocent VIII, by whom he was nominated to the important office of patriarch of
Aquileia (1491). Barbaro resided in
Rome for the majority of his life, in receipt of a small pension from the pontifical government, until his death (probably from the plague) in 1493 (according to some, two years later). While posted in Rome he wrote "De officio legati," an essay describing the duties of a resident ambassador.
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