Jacopo Filippo di Bergamo (1434 - 1520)
1434-01-06Solto Collina, Italy1520-06-16Bergamo, Italy
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 |
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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 |