Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus
Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus (1436–1506) was a scholar and historian from Venice. He is known for his universal history of 1504, Enneades sive Rhapsodia historiarum.
Life
Born in Vicovaro, his surname was originally Cocci; he took his Latinised name as a pupil of Pomponius Laetus.[1] He studied also with Porcelio Pandone and Gaspar Veronese.[2]
He became professor of eloquence at Udine in 1473, but was dismissed in 1482. After a short period at Verona, he went to Venice, with the Venetian history he had written speculatively.[2] In 1487 he was appointed as a curator of the Biblioteca Marciana.
Works
He wrote a Latin history of Venice, Historiae rerum venetarum ab urbe condita, with official encouragement; but it proved unpopular with the citizens.[3]
Notes
- ^ p. 299; Google Books.
- ^ a b Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher, Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation, Volumes 1-3 (2003), pp. 181–2; Google Books.
- ^ William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation (Berkeley, 1968), p. 90.
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