Giacomo Filippo Foresti

Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo [Giacomo Filipo Foresti, Giacomo Filippo da Bergamo, Jacobus Filippus Foresti, Jacobus Philippus Foresti (da Bergamo), Jacopo Filippo Foresta, Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo, Jacobus Philippus Bergomensis, Iacobus Philippus Bergomensis, Forestus Bergomensis, Jacopo da Bergamo, Jacopo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo, Jacopo de Foresti, Jacob Philip of Bergamo.] (1434-1520) was an Augustinian monk [ [http://www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula/e/collection/col_04.html Incunabula Leaves from Italy | Incunabula - Dawn of Western Printing ] ] , known as the author of several significant early printed works. He was a chronicler and Biblical scholar.

His "Supplementum chronicarum" (1483) [ [http://panizzi.comune.re.it/mostre/incu/foresti.htm Page] ; in Latin, translated into Italian as Supplemento delle Croniche in 1491 [http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/bibliotecacentrale/tesori/sec15i.htm] .] was a universal chronicle running to numerous subsequent editions. Amongst other things, it records Giovanni da Carignano's lost work on papal contacts at Avignon in 1306 with Ethiopian visitors. [See [http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/guide/afr-encounters.html] ]

His "De claris mulieribus" [ [http://warp.ndl.go.jp/cgi-bin/netwp/BNWPLinkChk2.cgi?fl=www.ndl.go.jp%2Fincunabula%2Fe%2Fcollection&mt=000000000280&cl=00000000000012064&ln=incu_51.html Page] ; On famous women; later under other titles "De claris selectisque plurimis mulieribus", "De memorabilibus et claris mulieribus aliquot diversorum scriptorum opera".] updated the work of Boccaccio of the same title. It was dedicated to Beatrice of Aragon [ [http://www.brynmawr.edu/Library/exhibits/BooksPrinters/secular.html] ; Queen of Hungary as wife to Matthias Corvinus, see .] This book, as well as the "Supplementum", influenced many subsequent publications

He also wrote a well-known confessional.

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