Jacopo Filippo di Bergamo (1434 - 1520)

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Jacopo Filippo di Bergamo

Jacopo Filippo di Bergamo, or Giacomo Filippo Forèsti (Latin: Iacobus Philippus Bergomensis) was an Italian Augustinian monk, theologian and chronicler.

Jacopo di Bergamo was born into a noble family, received his ecclesiastical education at the local monastery, and early showed a penchant for literary work. After traveling in Europe, he took the tonsure and was abbot of monasteries, engaged in their improvement.

He is known as the author of a number of significant early printed works, a chronicler and biblical scholar. His Supplementum chronicarum (1483) is a universal chronicle that survived many subsequent editions. And De claris mulieribus, published in 1497, contains the first account of the voyage of the discoverer Columbus.

Date and place of birt:6 january 1434, Solto Collina, Italy
Date and place of death:16 june 1520, Bergamo, Italy
Period of activity: XV, XVI century
Specialization:Historian, Monk, Theologian, Writer
Genre:History painting, Religious genre
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