| Pomponius Laetus |
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| 1425 births | |
| laetus, julius pomponius | |
| 1498 deaths | |
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BACKGROUND Laetus was born at ''. Bartolomeo Platina and Filippo Buonaccorsi were among the most distinguished members of the circle. CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING HIS ACADEMY Pope , and Republicanism . In 1468 twenty of the academicians were arrested during Carnival , on charges of conspiracy against the Pope. Laetus, who was in Venice at the time the supposed conspiracy was discovered, was sent back to Rome, imprisoned and put to the torture, but refused to plead guilty to the charges of infidelity and immorality. For want of evidence, he was acquitted and allowed to resume his professorial duties; but it was forbidden to utter the name of the academy even in jest. Laetus continued to teach in Rome until his death in 1498 . Pope Sixtus IV permitted the resumption of its meetings, which continued to be held till the Sack Of Rome ( 1527 ) by Constable Bourbon during the papacy of Pope Clement VII . SIGNIFICANCE Laetus, who has been called the first head of a Philological school, was extraordinarily successful as a teacher; he said that he expected, like Socrates and Christ , to live on through his pupils, some of whom were many of the most famous scholars of the period. His works, written in pure and simple Latin, were published in a collected form (''Opera Pomponii Laeti varia'', 1521). They contain treatises on the Roman magistrates, priests and lawyers, and a compendium of Roman history from the death of the younger Gordian to the time of Justin III. Laetus also wrote commentaries on classical authors, and promoted the publication of the '' Editio Princeps '' of Virgil at Rome in 1469. NOTES REFERENCES
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