Zanobi da Strada

{{Short description|Italian translator and scholar (1312–1361)}}

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Zanobi da Strada

| image = Portret van Zanobi da Strada Portretten van beroemde Italianen met wapenschild in ondermarge (serietitel), RP-P-1909-4670.jpg

| birth_date = {{Birth-date|1312}}

| birth_place = Strada, Florentine Republic

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1361|1312}}

| death_place = Avignon, Avignon Papacy

| occupation = Poet

| awards = Poet laureate

}}

Zanobi da Strada (1312 – 1361 in Avignon), was an Italian translator, scholar and correspondent of Petrarch and a friend of Giovanni Boccaccio.Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia by Christopher Kleinhenz (Nov 2003) {{ISBN|0415939313}} page 1174

He was born in Strata or Strada in Chianti, a hamlet or neighborhood within the town of Greve in Chianti, near Florence, Tuscany. He initially worked in Florence as a secretary for the King of Naples. He was responsible for some manuscript rediscoveries in the Monte Cassino monastery library to which he had access as secretary to the diocesan bishop and where he lived from 1355 to 1357. Early Apuleius MS marginalia (including the so-called {{lang|la|spurcum additamentum}}, a pornographic interpolation at Met. 10.21.1{{cite book |chapter-url=https://ugp.rug.nl/AN/article/download/24440/21890 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522044043/https://ugp.rug.nl/AN/article/download/24440/21890 |archive-date=2023-05-22 |first=Vincent |last=Hunink |chapter=The 'spurcum additamentum' (Apul. Met. 10,21) once again |pages=266–279 |title={{lang|la|Lectiones Scrupulosae}}: Essays on the Text and Interpretation of Apuleius' Metamorphoses in Honour of Maaike Zimmerman (Supplementum 6 to Ancient Narrative) }}) is in his hand.Scribes and Scholars, L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, OUP 1991 (3rd ed.), p. 133

Zanobi da Strada was crowned poet laureate by Charles IV on May 15, 1355, at Pisa, to the great disgust of Boccaccio, who declined to recognise the degree as legitimate.{{cite book |last1=Burckhardt |first1=Jacob |title=The Civilization Of The Renaissance in Italy |date=1878 |publisher=Vienna Phaidon Press |location=University of Toronto - Robarts Library |page=[https://archive.org/details/civilizationofre00burc/page/106 106] |url=https://archive.org/details/civilizationofre00burc |access-date=9 March 2019}} From there, Zanobi worked as an apostolic protonotary and secretary to pope Innocent VI. Zanobi would die in Avignon. Few of his verses survive. He was also a translator of some classic works, including the Morals by St. Gregory.[https://books.google.com/books?id=hg5BAQAAMAAJ Dizionario biografico universale], Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 200.