Pietro Summonte
Pietro Summonte (1463–1526) was an Italian
Renaissance humanist of
Naples, a member of the learned circle of friends in the
Ciceronian manner that constituted
Pontano's Accademia Pontaniana. Summonte's care in preserving his correspondence on artistic matters with the Venetian
Marcantonio Michiel resulted in a precious archive mined by art historians. His major poem was the ''Canzone intitulata Aragonia''. To him,
Jacopo Sannazaro and
Benedetto Cariteo addressed verses in Latin and the vernacular, and Sannazaro entrusted his ''Arcadia'', which had circulated in manuscript since about 1485, but of which corrupt pirated editions appeared at Venice (1502) for a carefully corrected printing by Sigismondo Mayr (1504), in which Brian Richardson has detected revisions that brought the language closer to
Boccaccio and
Petrarch, so that it lost many of its southern dialect forms. Summonte, who took on the guidance of the
Accademia Pontaniana after Pontano's death (1503), edited for publication Pontano's two books of Hendecasyllables, to which he applied the subtitle ''Baiae''.
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