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Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger

Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger (1406 – October 1438) was a Renaissance humanist and translator from Greek into Latin. A grandson of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, he was probably born in Florence. He was a pupil of Francesco Filelfo at the University of Bologna in 1428. He wrote a scurrilous deadpan satiric dialogue on the papal curia, De curiae commodis (1438), "On the benefits of the Curia". There also survives a collection of his letters.

Works he translated include:

the biographies of Solon, Themistocles, Pericles, Fabius Maximus, Publicola, Theseus, Romulus, Aratus and Artaxerxes I from Plutarch's Parallel Lives
Several of Lucian's works: De fletu, De somnio, De sacrificiis, De tyranno, Calumnia, De longaevis, Patriae laudatio and Demonactis vita
Isocrates: Nicocles, Ad Nicoclem and Oratio ad Daemonicum
Josephus, Jewish Wars
Theophrastus, Liber de impressionibus
Demosthenes, Oratio funebris
Xenophon, Praefectus equitum

References

Riccardo Fubini, [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/castiglionchio-lapo-da-detto-il-giovane_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ "Castiglionchio, Lapo da, detto il Giovane"], ''Dizionario biografico degli italiani'', Vol. 22 (Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1979).
The work in Latin with an English translation is the subject of [[Christopher Celenza]], [http://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/0472109944.pdf ''Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger's De curiae commodis''] (1999).
Elizabeth May McCahill, "Finding a Job as a Humanist: The Epistolary Collection of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger", ''Renaissance Quarterly'', Vol. 57, No. 4 (2004), pp. 1308–1345. {{jstor. 4143697

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