Andreolo Giustiniani
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Andreolo Giustiniani{{Efn|Sometimes 'Andreolus' or 'Giustiniani-Banca'.|name=|group=}} (1385/92{{Spaced en dash}}1456) was an antiquarian, humanist, literary patron, and writer of the Italian Renaissance.
Life
Giustianiani was a native of Chios, when the island was still part of the Republic of Genoa.{{Sfn|Setton|1978|p=78}} His family, the Giustiniani family, were lords of the island.{{Sfn|Petti Balbi|2018|p=335}} He lived his entire life in Chios. His nephew was Agostino Giustiniani, bishop and intellectual of Genoa.
He was the son of Niccolò Giustiniani and Brancaleona Grimaldi Banca, both members of the Genoese nobility.{{cite book|last=Basso|first=Enrico|title=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|date=2001|publisher=Treccani|volume=57|language=it|chapter=Giustiniani, Andreolo|chapter-url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/andreolo-giustiniani_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|access-date=11 August 2020|archive-date=8 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308004919/http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/andreolo-giustiniani_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|url-status=live}} Through his mother, he was a member of the Banca noble family. Giustianiani was a member of the Maona of Chios and Phocaea.
Collecting and patronage
Giustianiani was an avid collector of ancient marble sculpture and amassed a substantial library, reportedly of over 2000 works (although Basso suggests that this figure is probably inflated).
Giustiniani was a patron of Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli and a number of Flemish artists.{{Sfn|Setton|1978|p=78}}{{Sfn|Petti Balbi|2018|p=340}} His friends and correspondents included Ambrogio Traversari, {{Interlanguage link|Giacomo Bracelli|lt=|it|Giacomo Bracelli|es|Jacopo Bracelli|fr|Jacopo Bracelli|WD=}}, Poggio Bracciolini and Niccolò Niccoli. Traversari's translation of the works of Aeneas of Gaza is dedicated to Giustiniani.{{Cite book|last=Stinger|first=Charles L.|url=https://archive.org/details/humanismchurchfa0000stin/page/78/mode/1up|title=Humanism and the Church Fathers: Ambrogio Traversari (1386–1439) and Christian Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance|date=1977|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-0-585-06424-6|pages=78|oclc=42855654}}
Writing
Giustianiani's works include Relazione dell'attacco e difesa di Scio, a poem about Venice's siege of Chios in 1431,{{Sfn|Petti Balbi|2018|p=335}} which he wrote at the request of his friend Giacomo Bracelli. The poem uses used epic language inspired by the works of Dante and Ariosto. The siege ended with the Genoese victory and the retreat of the Venetians.
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Bibliography
- {{Citation|last=Petti Balbi|first=Giovanna|title=Intellectual Life|date=2018-02-28|url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004360617/BP000028.xml|work=A Companion to Medieval Genoa|pages=320–344|editor-last=Beneš|editor-first=Carrie E.|publisher=Brill|doi=10.1163/9789004360617_015|isbn=978-90-04-36061-7}}
- {{The Papacy and the Levant|volume=2}}
Further reading
- {{Cite book|last=Toso|first=Fiorenzo|title=La letteratura ligure in genovese e nei dialetti locali : profilo storico e antologia|date=2009|publisher=Le mani|isbn=978-88-8012-521-1|location=Recco|oclc=703207112|lang=it}}
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