Benivieni, Girolamo

Benivieni, Girolamo

▪ Italian poet
born 1453, Florence [Italy]
died 1542, Florence

      poet who was an intimate of several great men of Renaissance Florence. He is important for his versification of the philosopher Marsilio Ficino's (Ficino, Marsilio) translation of Plato's Symposium, which influenced other writers during the Renaissance and afterward.

      As a member of the Florentine Medici circle, Benivieni was well acquainted with the Renaissance humanists Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Conte Di Concordia), and Politian (Angelo Poliziano). Ficino translated the Symposium about 1474 with his own commentary, which Benivieni summarized in the canzone “De lo amore celeste” (“Of Heavenly Love”), and this in turn became the subject of an extensive commentary by Pico della Mirandola. Thus, through all these sources, Platonism reached many other writers, including the Italians Pietro Bembo and Baldassare Castiglione and the English poet Edmund Spenser. Benivieni eventually fell under the spell of the fiery Renaissance religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola (Savonarola, Girolamo). After his conversion, Benivieni rewrote some of his sensual poetry, translated a treatise of Savonarola's into Italian (Della semplicità della vita cristiana; “On the Simplicity of the Christian Life”), and wrote some religious poetry. He was buried in the Church of San Marco, Florence, next to his closest friend, Pico della Mirandola.

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