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Giulio Campagnola.
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GIULIO CAMPAGNOLA.
Son of the writer Girolamo Campagnola: b. Padua1 about 14822:
attached to the court of Ercole I at Ferrara in 1498 : in 1507 at
Venice3 4: working until after 1514/ died probably soon after that
date.5
According to contemporary accounts Giulio Campagnola was a
youth of marvellously precocious and varied gifts and promise.6 To
1 Whence the title Antenoreus (from the reputed founder of the city), which
he sometimes adds to his signature.
2 Letter of Matteo Bosso to Giulio’s father Girolamo Campagnola (Familiares
et Secundae M. B. Epistolae, Mantua 1498, Epist. 75, n.d.; ab. 1493?) refers
to Giulio as 1 vix tertium ingressus lustrum ’ (not much over ten); the 86th
letter of the same series dated 8. Kai. Dec. 1495 (M. B. to Hector Theophanius)
describes him as scarcely thirteen; another letter of M. B. to Girolamo
Campagnola (ep. 211 of the same series, dated 16. Kai. Feb. 1498) refers to
him as scarcely seventeen years old; finally a letter of Michael de Placiola
to Francesco Gonzaga (Sep. 1497) soliciting a place for Giulio at the Mantuan
Court as ‘ garzone de anni 15 ’ (see Luzio, Archivio Storico, I. p. 184, and
Kristeller, Mantegna, Leipzig 1902, p. 563). The last reference is the most
definite and gives the date quoted above, which is not inconsistent with the
somewhat vague references of Bosso.
3 See Silvio de Kunert, Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova, 1907, p. 6.
Bartolommeo di San Vito, a Paduan, notes 14 June and 28 Dec. 1507 that he
had lent and received back from Giulio (then residing in Venice) a watercolour
drawing of Phaethon by a certain Gasparo, and three copper-plates.
4 Jacopo Morelli in his edition of the Anonimo (Marcantonio Michiel)
stated that he knew a poem (now lost) by Giulio on the death of Pope
Julius II, whicli took place in 1513. The last clause in the will of the famous
printer Aldo Manuzio (16. Jan. 1515) contains a request to his executor to have
some new cursive type cut by Giulio Campagnola (see A. Baschet, Aldo Manuzio,
Lettres et Documents, Venice 1867, p. 47 ; compare A. Panizzi, Chi era Francesco
da Bologna ? London 1858, p. 15).
5 See introductory note to Domenico Campagnola, in reference to the print
of the Shepherds in a landscape (No. 11). It should be noted however that
one of the prints attributed with probability to Giulio (P. K. 17) is a copy after
Ludwig Krug (B. 11). The only two dated prints by Krug belong to 1516, and
B. 11 can hardly be much earlier than that date.
6 In his article on Giulio’s father, the man of letters Girolamo Campagnola,
Scardeone quotes a letter of Matteo Bosso to Hector Theophanius in reference
to Giulio, which in the edition of Bossi’s letters of 1498 reads as follows :
Qui quum tertiumdecimu annu vix esset ingressus : tanto exurgere
coepit Igenio £ veris insistere lazedibus atp virtutibus: ut ea estate latine non
mode : sed cs graece logueretur d saperet: & abinde non multu hcebraice tarn
cbmode d apposite legerit: ut a cuna cu lacte earn liguam sit visus hausisse.
489
GIULIO CAMPAGNOLA.
Son of the writer Girolamo Campagnola: b. Padua1 about 14822:
attached to the court of Ercole I at Ferrara in 1498 : in 1507 at
Venice3 4: working until after 1514/ died probably soon after that
date.5
According to contemporary accounts Giulio Campagnola was a
youth of marvellously precocious and varied gifts and promise.6 To
1 Whence the title Antenoreus (from the reputed founder of the city), which
he sometimes adds to his signature.
2 Letter of Matteo Bosso to Giulio’s father Girolamo Campagnola (Familiares
et Secundae M. B. Epistolae, Mantua 1498, Epist. 75, n.d.; ab. 1493?) refers
to Giulio as 1 vix tertium ingressus lustrum ’ (not much over ten); the 86th
letter of the same series dated 8. Kai. Dec. 1495 (M. B. to Hector Theophanius)
describes him as scarcely thirteen; another letter of M. B. to Girolamo
Campagnola (ep. 211 of the same series, dated 16. Kai. Feb. 1498) refers to
him as scarcely seventeen years old; finally a letter of Michael de Placiola
to Francesco Gonzaga (Sep. 1497) soliciting a place for Giulio at the Mantuan
Court as ‘ garzone de anni 15 ’ (see Luzio, Archivio Storico, I. p. 184, and
Kristeller, Mantegna, Leipzig 1902, p. 563). The last reference is the most
definite and gives the date quoted above, which is not inconsistent with the
somewhat vague references of Bosso.
3 See Silvio de Kunert, Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova, 1907, p. 6.
Bartolommeo di San Vito, a Paduan, notes 14 June and 28 Dec. 1507 that he
had lent and received back from Giulio (then residing in Venice) a watercolour
drawing of Phaethon by a certain Gasparo, and three copper-plates.
4 Jacopo Morelli in his edition of the Anonimo (Marcantonio Michiel)
stated that he knew a poem (now lost) by Giulio on the death of Pope
Julius II, whicli took place in 1513. The last clause in the will of the famous
printer Aldo Manuzio (16. Jan. 1515) contains a request to his executor to have
some new cursive type cut by Giulio Campagnola (see A. Baschet, Aldo Manuzio,
Lettres et Documents, Venice 1867, p. 47 ; compare A. Panizzi, Chi era Francesco
da Bologna ? London 1858, p. 15).
5 See introductory note to Domenico Campagnola, in reference to the print
of the Shepherds in a landscape (No. 11). It should be noted however that
one of the prints attributed with probability to Giulio (P. K. 17) is a copy after
Ludwig Krug (B. 11). The only two dated prints by Krug belong to 1516, and
B. 11 can hardly be much earlier than that date.
6 In his article on Giulio’s father, the man of letters Girolamo Campagnola,
Scardeone quotes a letter of Matteo Bosso to Hector Theophanius in reference
to Giulio, which in the edition of Bossi’s letters of 1498 reads as follows :
Qui quum tertiumdecimu annu vix esset ingressus : tanto exurgere
coepit Igenio £ veris insistere lazedibus atp virtutibus: ut ea estate latine non
mode : sed cs graece logueretur d saperet: & abinde non multu hcebraice tarn
cbmode d apposite legerit: ut a cuna cu lacte earn liguam sit visus hausisse.