Maffeo Vegio: Elenco delle opere, scritti inediti. Lodi, Italy: Quirico e Camagni, 1896.Īn older intellectual biography, to be updated by more recent scholarship but still cited regularly.
La vita di Maffeo Vegio umanista lodigiano. More accessible than the other biographies but should be supplemented by the older material for serious study. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 2006.Īn overview of Vegio’s life and works, with a bibliography that includes manuscripts containing the unpublished material. “Maffeo Vegio.” In Centuriae Latinae II: Cent une figures humanistes de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Useful supplement to Minoia 1896 and Raffaele 1909. Presents extracts from several documents that offer information on the details of Vegio’s life and works. “Intorno alla vita di Maffeo Vegio da Lodi: Notizie inedite.” Archivio storico italiano 5.42 (1908): 377–388. See also Franzoni 1907 (cited under Scholarship on Vegio and His Works: Prose Works).Ĭonsonni, G. A. Short treatments can be found in Kallendorf 2006 and Zaccaria 1986, with additional information available in Consonni 1908, Vignati 1959, and Sottili 1967. The fullest discussions of Vegio’s life and works are still Minoia 1896 and Raffaele 1909, both now more than a century old. As this article shows, the only work of Vegio’s to have been adequately treated in modern scholarship is Book 13, while a number of studies published in his hometown of Lodi are almost impossible to access from the anglophone world. He is best known today as the author of a thirteenth book to the Aeneid, which was very popular in the Renaissance and has remained in print in every century up to and including the present. A prolific writer, Vegio is the author of an important treatise on education and one of the first manuals of Christian archaeology.
While his language of choice remained Latin, his works divide chronologically, with secular poetry dominating the first period and explicitly Christian writings the second. After moving from Milan to Pavia to Florence, Vegio settled in Rome, where he found employment at the Papal Curia as a secretary. Maffeo Vegio (b. 1407–d. 1458) is an excellent example of an Italian humanist of the second rank, one who lacked the dazzling brilliance of Lorenzo Valla, the scholarly impact of Leonardo Bruni, or the notoriety of Antonio Beccadelli (Panormita), but whose literary talents made him the friend and associate of these and other famous humanists of his day.
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