Baptista, Mantuanus, 1447-1516
Baptista belonged to a Spanish family that served at the court of Mantua. After starting his education there, Baptista studied the liberal arts at Padua, then joined the Carmelite order in Ferrara in 1463. A decade later he studied theology and taught at the monastery of San Martino in Bologna, where he was ordained. He tutored the children of the Duke of Mantua, was a vicar general, advocated for the Carmelite Order to various popes, and served as the director of studies for the reformed Carmelite monastery in Mantua, participating in a humanist academy there. Over his lifetime, he wrote 55,000 lines of poetry; sermons; De patientia, a treatise on physical and spiritual illness; De vita beata, a dialogue on the religious life; and Opus aureum in Thomistas, an early humanist critique of the philosophy and theology associated with Thomas Aquinas.
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- Baptista, Mantuanus, 1447-1516
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- Baptista, Mantuanus, 1447-1516
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Variants
- Baptist, Mantuan
- Baptist, Montuan
- Baptist, of Mantua
- Baptista, Carmelita
- Baptista, de Mantoue
- Baptista, Mantuanus
- Baptista, Mantuavus
- Baptista, Spagnoli
- Baptista, Spagnuoli
- Baptiste Mantuan
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- Baptista
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- Birth date
- 1447-04-17
- Death date
- 1516-03-22
- Centuries
- 15th century CE ● 16th century CE
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General notes
- Citations
- Gordon W. Jones, “Baptista Mantuanus—Amateur Physician,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 36, no. 2 (1962): 148-62, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44449788.
- Citations
- 42983 (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg im Breisgau, Hs. 20), Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, accessed November 16, 2023, https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/75170.
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- 2023-11-16
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- 2023-11-16