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Masuccio, Salernitano, active 15th century


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    • Guardati, Masuccio, active 15th century
    • Guardati, Tommaso, active 15th century
    • Guardato, Masuzo, active 15th century
    • Guardato, Tommaso, active 15th century
    • Masius, Salernitanus, active 15th century
    • Massuccio, Salernitano, active 15th century
    • Masuccio, da Salerno, active 15th century
    • Masuccio dei Guardati, Salernitano, active 15th century
    • Masuccio Salernitano, 15th cent.
    • Masuccio, Salernitano, 15th cent.
    • Masucio, Guardato, active 15th century
    • Masucio, Salernitano, active 15th century
    • Masuzo, Guardato, active 15th century
    • Salernitano, Masuccio, active 15th century

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        • Masuccio Salernitano, 15th cent.
        • Masuccio, Salernitano, 15th cent.

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        • found: Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare, 2000:t.p. (Masuccio Salernitano) p. 1 (b. ca. 1410; d. 1475)
        • found: Masuccio, Salernitano. Nouellino, 1492: title page (name presented in uppercase as MASVC CIO SALERNITANO) colophon (Finisce el nouellino [de] Masuccio Salernitano)
        • found: Masuccio, Salernitano. [Novellino], 1483, via BEIC, September 25, 2019:colophon (Qui finisce il Nouellino con le L argomenti & morali conclusio[n]i dalcuni exempli per Masucio Guardato nobele salernitano ...)
        • found: De Propris, Fabio. "GUARDATI, Tommaso," in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, v. 60 (2003), accessed online via Treccani website, September 25, 2019("GUARDATI (Guardato), Tommaso (Masuccio Salernitano)"; born in Salerno or, less probably, Sorrento around 1410; probably entered the service of Raimondo Orsini as secretary in his youth or first maturity, and began to frequent the Aragonese court in Naples; began writing novelle around 1450; secretary to Roberto Sanseverino, prince of Salerno, 1463; probably died before August 12, 1475, date of a document prepared by another secretary to Roberto's son and successor Antonello Sanseverino; first edition of Novellino, now lost, published in 1476, with a dedicatory letter whose tone suggests the author was already deceased) - http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tommaso-guardati_(Dizionario-Biografico)/
        • found: Enciclopedia on line, via Treccani website, September 25, 2019:(Masùccio Salernitano, real name Tommaso Guardati, author of novelle, born in Salerno; died, perhaps in Salerno, 1475; courtier in the court of Aragon, then served Roberto Sanseverino as secretary; Novellino, his collection of 50 novelle, was first published posthumously in 1476) - http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/masuccio-salernitano
        • found: Italian Wikipedia, September 25, 2019(article title Masuccio Salernitano; Tommaso Guardati, called Masuccio Salernitano, or Masuccio da Salerno (born Salerno or Sorrento, approximately 1410, died Salerno, 1475), was an Italian writer and author of novelle; served at the court of Alfonso V of Aragon in Naples; after 1463, returned to Salerno and was secretary to Roberto Sanseverino; recalled solely for Novellino, a collection of 50 satirical and grotesque tales, published posthumously in 1476)
        • found: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, September 25, 2019(Masuccio, Salernitano; other names: Massuccio, Salernitano; Masuccio, Tommaso; Tommaso, Masuccio; Masuccio, dei Guardati; Salernitano, Masuccio; Guardati, Tommaso; Guardato, Masuzo; Masuzo, Guardato; Masius, Salernitanus; Guardato, Tommaso; Tommaso, Guardati; Masuccio, von Salerno; life dates: 1410-1475; Italian writer, author of Il novellino)
        • found: Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF autorités, September 25, 2019(Masuccio de Salerne (1410?-1475), forme courante français; Masuccio Salernitano (1410?-1475), forme internationale italien; BN Cat. gén.: Masuccio dei Guardati, Salernitano)
        • found: EDIT 16, September 25, 2019(Masuccio : Salernitano <ca. 1410-1475?>; name in editions: Massuccio Salernitano; Masuccio Salernitano)

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        • 1979-09-17: new
        • 2023-09-09: revised

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