Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Richards, J. F. C.

Titel

The Elysium of Julius Caesar Bordonius (Scaliger)

Ist Teil von

• Studies in the Renaissance, 1962-01, Vol.9, p.195-217

Ort / Verlag

New York, etc: The Renaissance Society of America

Erscheinungsjahr

1962

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Elysium Atestinum of Julius Caesar Bordonius (or Bordonus) is a Latin poem of 411 hexameters, dedicated to Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539). The purpose of the poem is to flatter Isabella and her brothers, Alfonso I, duke of Ferrara (1486-1534), and Cardinal Ippolito d'Este (1479-1520), by inventing a myth showing the interest of the Olympian gods in the house of Este and by providing it with an eponymous ancestor, the Trojan Atestes. It also describes an elaborate park and zoological garden on an island in the Po, which Alfonso is to make. This is presumably the park belonging to the Belvedere Palace built for Alfonso by Girolamo da Carpi between 1514 and 1516, which was celebrated not only by Bordonius, but also by Scipione Balbo in a Latin poem called Pulcher visus, by Celio Calcagnini in an epigram, and by Ariosto in the Orlando furioso.