- Francesco Barbaro
Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) was an important humanist in
Venice of the patricianBarbaro family .He was the son of Candiano Barbaro. He was a student at the
University of Padua . Early in his career, he translated Greek texts into Latin. He was elected to the Venetian Senate in 1419. He wrote "De re uxoria," inspired by ancient Latin and Greek sources. While governor of the city ofBrescia he attained great reputation in his defence of the city against the forces of theDuke of Milan .He is interred in the Church of the "
Frari ", Venice. ["Scorsa di un lombardo negli archivj di Venezia", Cesare Cantù, 1856, pg.127]His son Zaccaria Barbaro, a senator, died in 1492 and is interred with epigraph in the church of
San Francesco della Vigna . ["Scorsa di un lombardo negli archivj di Venezia", Cesare Cantù, 1856, pg.128] . Zaccaria was the father of the scholarErmolao Barbaro and Alvise Barbaro, Cavalier, Procurator, andProvveditore al Sal ["Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630", Brian Pullan, 2001, University of TorontoPress, pg.201] .References
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