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'''Filippo Diversi''', in [[Latin]] '''Philippus de Diversis de Quartigianis''' (fl. 1434–1444), was a [[Lucca]]n scholar and writer. His life is known mostly from his own writings, the most important of which is his ''Descriptio'' of the city of [[Dubrovnik]] (Ragusa).<ref name=DBI></ref>
Filippo was born in Lucca in the 1390s to Giovanni of the [[House of Quartigiani]]. With the fall of the [[Republic of Lucca]] and the rise of [[Paolo Guinigi]], his family was forced into exile. They went to [[Republic of Venice|Venice]], where there was a large community of expatriate Luccans supported by organs like the [[Scuola dei Santo Volto]]. According to an appeal he lodged on 8 December 1444, his grandfather Nicolò and his great-grandfather Giovanni had also suffered exile for the sake of Luccan liberty.<ref name=DBI/>
In 1434, Filippo was invited by the [[Republic of Ragusa]] to teach grammar. He took up his post in the [[Sponza Palace]], but he did not receive the promised remuneration. In Ragusa he wrote his most famous work, ''Situs aedificiorum, politiae et laudabilium consuetudinum inclytae civitatis Ragusii ad ipsius Senatum descriptio'', a description of the city in fifty chapters dedicated to the senate, which probably commissioned it. He describes the city's geography and climate i Part I, architecture in Part II, church and constitution in Part III and customs in Part IV. He completely ignores the city's history.<ref name=DBI/>
Filippo was still in Ragusa in 1440 and thereafter his movements are hard to trace. Although elected on 22 October 1441 to a teaching position in Lucca, he does not seem to have taken it up. He would have taught grammar, rhetoric and moral philosophy for 100 [[florin]]s. It is uncertain, therefore, if he ever returned to Lucca. He was in Venice when he lodged his appeal ''ad Lucenses'' ("to the Luccans") in 1444.<ref name=DBI/>
Besides his ''Descriptio'' of Ragusa, three speeches by Filippo have survived. Like the ''Descriptio'' they are rather flat and far from the tendencies and lexicon of the new [[Renaissance humanism|humanism]]:<ref name=DBI/>
*''Pro funere Serenissimi olim Romanorum Imperatoris semper Augusti ac Regis Illustrissimi Regnorum Unghariae et Bohemiae Sigismundi'' (eulogy of [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor]], delivered 20 January 1438)
*''In laudem Serenissimi Unghariae et Bohemiae Regis electi, et coronati, ac Ducis Austriae inclyti, et Moraniae Marchionis Domini Alberti oratio'' (congratulations on [[Albert II of Germany|Albert, Duke of Austria]]'s election as king of Hungary and Bohemia, delivered 26 February 1438)
*''Pro morte Illustrissimi Regis Alberti Romanorum et Unghariae et Bohemiae et Ducis Austriae defuncti'' (eulogy of Albert, who died 27 October 1439)
==References==
[[Category:1390s births]]
[[Category:People from Lucca]]
[[Category:15th-century Latin writers]]
[[Category:Republic of Ragusa]]
Filippo was born in Lucca in the 1390s to Giovanni of the [[House of Quartigiani]]. With the fall of the [[Republic of Lucca]] and the rise of [[Paolo Guinigi]], his family was forced into exile. They went to [[Republic of Venice|Venice]], where there was a large community of expatriate Luccans supported by organs like the [[Scuola dei Santo Volto]]. According to an appeal he lodged on 8 December 1444, his grandfather Nicolò and his great-grandfather Giovanni had also suffered exile for the sake of Luccan liberty.<ref name=DBI/>
In 1434, Filippo was invited by the [[Republic of Ragusa]] to teach grammar. He took up his post in the [[Sponza Palace]], but he did not receive the promised remuneration. In Ragusa he wrote his most famous work, ''Situs aedificiorum, politiae et laudabilium consuetudinum inclytae civitatis Ragusii ad ipsius Senatum descriptio'', a description of the city in fifty chapters dedicated to the senate, which probably commissioned it. He describes the city's geography and climate i Part I, architecture in Part II, church and constitution in Part III and customs in Part IV. He completely ignores the city's history.<ref name=DBI/>
Filippo was still in Ragusa in 1440 and thereafter his movements are hard to trace. Although elected on 22 October 1441 to a teaching position in Lucca, he does not seem to have taken it up. He would have taught grammar, rhetoric and moral philosophy for 100 [[florin]]s. It is uncertain, therefore, if he ever returned to Lucca. He was in Venice when he lodged his appeal ''ad Lucenses'' ("to the Luccans") in 1444.<ref name=DBI/>
Besides his ''Descriptio'' of Ragusa, three speeches by Filippo have survived. Like the ''Descriptio'' they are rather flat and far from the tendencies and lexicon of the new [[Renaissance humanism|humanism]]:<ref name=DBI/>
*''Pro funere Serenissimi olim Romanorum Imperatoris semper Augusti ac Regis Illustrissimi Regnorum Unghariae et Bohemiae Sigismundi'' (eulogy of [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor]], delivered 20 January 1438)
*''In laudem Serenissimi Unghariae et Bohemiae Regis electi, et coronati, ac Ducis Austriae inclyti, et Moraniae Marchionis Domini Alberti oratio'' (congratulations on [[Albert II of Germany|Albert, Duke of Austria]]'s election as king of Hungary and Bohemia, delivered 26 February 1438)
*''Pro morte Illustrissimi Regis Alberti Romanorum et Unghariae et Bohemiae et Ducis Austriae defuncti'' (eulogy of Albert, who died 27 October 1439)
==References==
[[Category:1390s births]]
[[Category:People from Lucca]]
[[Category:15th-century Latin writers]]
[[Category:Republic of Ragusa]]
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