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'''Marin Beçikemi''' ({{lang-la|Marinus Becichemus Scodrensis}}) (1468-1526) was an [[Republic of Venice|Albanian]] 15th and 16th century humanist, orator, and chronist. It is unknown where was his place of birth, but it is supposed that he was born in the city [[Shkodër]] in Albania, which was under Venetian rule at that time.<ref name="Treccani">{{cite web|title=BECICHEMO, Marino|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marino-becichemo_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|website=Treccani|accessdate=3 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="HBL">{{cite web|title=BEČIĆ, Marin|url=http://hbl.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=1553|website=Croatian Biographical Lexicon|publisher=Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža|accessdate=3 March 2018}}</ref> After the [[Siege of Shkodra]], he left [[Shkodër]] and went to [[Ulcinj]] and from that to Italy in [[Brescia]].<ref name="Treccani"/> There he learnt Latin and Greek language.<ref name="Treccani"/> In 1492 he went to [[Republic of Ragusa|Dubrovnik]] where he became school rector and befriended with [[Ivan Gučetić]], ragusian poet. In 1500, he gained full citizenship of Venetian republic and opened humanist school. In 1501 he went to Brescia where he worked at the university and printed his first works in Latin, such as ''Observationum collectanea in primum Historiae naturali librum'' (1504–1506).<ref name="Treccani"/> In 1503 he published a panegyric to the Venetian Senate concerning the siege; it was translated into Albanian and English and included with [[Marin Barleti]]'s work, ''[[The Siege of Shkodra (book)|The Siege of Shkodra]]'', version published in 1962. He wrote commentaries on [[Cicero]], [[Pliny the Elder]] and other [[Ancient philosophy|classical philosophers]]. Couple of years later, he became a professor of rhetoric at the [[University of Padova]].<ref name="Buda1985">{{cite book|author=Aleks Buda|title=Fjalori Enciklopedik Shqiptar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQrySAAACAAJ|accessdate=9 June 2012|year=1985|publisher=Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH|page=81}}</ref>
{{confuse|Marin Barleti}}
'''Marino Becichemo''' ({{lang-la|Marinus Becichemus Scodrensis}};{{Cref2|a}} 1468–1526) was a [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] humanist, orator, and chronicler.

Becichemo was likely born in [[Shkodër|Scutari (Shkodër)]], at the time part of [[Venetian Dalmatia]],{{sfn|Clough|1970}} now in northern Albania. His father Marino was a Venetian secretary at the [[Ottoman court]]{{sfn|Clough|1970}} for about 30 years.{{sfn|HBL}} His grandfather Pietro was an ambassador in Albania of Stefano Ionina to Venice.{{sfn|Clough|1970}} His mother Bianca Pagnano likely hailed from a [[Duchy of Milan|Milanese]] merchant family in Dalmatia.{{sfn|Clough|1970}} His paternal family (the Bečići) descended from the [[Paštrovići]],<ref>{{harvnb|HBL}}, {{harvnb|Čoralić|2018|p=22}}, {{harvnb|Vukmanović|1960|p=76}}</ref> an [[Eastern Orthodoxy in Montenegro|Eastern Orthodox]] tribe near the [[Bay of Kotor]] (in [[Montenegro]]), which served the Republic of Venice.{{sfn|Čoralić|2018}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=В. Греговић|first1=Ђорђе|title=O PAŠTROVIĆIMA|url=https://www.rastko.rs/rastko-bo/ljudi/djgregovic-pastrovici_l.html|website=Projekat Rastko|accessdate=3 March 2018}}</ref>

After 1477, with the [[Siege of Shkodra|Ottoman conquest of Scutari]], during which his parents were captured by the Ottomans,{{sfn|HBL}} Becichemo found refuge with his relative{{sfn|HBL}} in nearby [[Ulcinj|Dulcigno (Ulcinj)]].{{sfn|Clough|1970}} He then moved with his relative to [[Brescia]] (in Italy), where he learnt [[Latin language|Latin]] and [[Greek language|Greek]].<ref name=C1970-HBL>{{harvnb|Clough|1970}}, {{harvnb|HBL}}</ref> In 1484, at only 17 years of age, he held a speech in the city in honour of mayor [[Marco Antonio Morosini]].<ref name=C1970-HBL/> Shortly after this he returned to Dulcigno where he married Caterina, the daughter of Pasquale Dabro, a member of a notable family in that city.<ref name=C1970-HBL/> The couple had many children.<ref name=C1970-HBL/> According to [[Šime Ljubić]] (1822–1896), the Senate of the [[Republic of Ragusa]] in 1492 sent for him and he was appointed the public school rector (at [[Dubrovnik]]).<ref name=C1970-HBL/> At Dubrovnik, he worked with poetry and rhetorics.{{sfn|HBL}} He wrote a work in 1495 dedicated to the Ragusan Senate.<ref name=C1970-HBL/> During his year-long stay, he befriended Ragusan humanist and poet [[Ivan Gučetić]] (1451–1502).{{sfn|HBL}} He was since October 1496 the secretary of Venetian patrician Melchiorre Trevisan, when the latter was ''provvedittore'' of the Venetian fleet based in the polity of [[Ferdinand II of Naples]], and later ''provvedittore generale'' in the [[Duchy of Milan]] ({{floruit}} September 1499).<ref name=C1970-HBL/> After receiving Venice citizenship in 1500, he opened a humanist school.<ref name=C1970-HBL/> In 1501 he went to Brescia where he worked at the university and printed his first works in Latin, such as ''Observationum collectanea in primum Historiae naturali librum'' (1504–1506).{{sfn|Clough|1970}} In 1503 he published a panegyric to the Venetian Senate concerning the siege. He wrote commentaries on [[Cicero]], [[Pliny the Elder]] and other [[Ancient philosophy|classical philosophers]]. Couple of years later, he became a professor of rhetoric at the [[University of Padua]].<ref name=C1970-HBL/>

In 1962 his 1503 panegyric was translated{{by whom|date=April 2018}} into Albanian and English and included with [[Marin Barleti]]'s work, ''[[The Siege of Shkodra (book)|The Siege of Shkodra]]''.{{where|date=April 2018}}<ref>{{cite book|author=Aleks Buda|title=Fjalori Enciklopedik Shqiptar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQrySAAACAAJ|accessdate=9 June 2012|year=1985|publisher=Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH|page=81}}</ref>
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==Works==
*''Castigationes ad Apuleium Victorinum et Ciceronis opus de Oratore etc. necnon praeceptiones de componenda epistola, funebrique et nuptiali oratione'' (1495)
*''Praelectio in C Plinium …'' (1503)
*''Panegyricus serenissimo principi Leonardo Lauretano …'' (1504)
*''Variarum observationum Collectanea'' (27 August 1504)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul Oskar Kristeller|author2=Ferdinand Edward Cranz|author3=Virginia Brown|title=Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SnvgAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Catholic University of America Press|isbn=978-0-8132-0547-2|pp=352–354}}</ref>
*''Observationum collectanea in primum Historiae naturali librum'' (1504–1506)

==Annotations==
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{{Cnote2|a|His name is spellt as {{lang-it|Marin Becichemo, Marino Becichemi da Scutari}}, {{lang-sq|Marin Beçikemi}}, {{lang-sh|Marin Bečić}}. His surname is also spellt Becicco, Bezicco, Bicichemo, Becichio.<ref name="FeraFerraù2002">{{cite book|author1=Vincenzo Fera|author2=Giacomo Ferraù|author3=Silvia Rizzo|title=Talking to the text: marginalia from papyri to print ; proceedings of a conference held at Erice, 26 September-3 October 1998 as the 12th course of International School for the Study of Written Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bYbgAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Centro interdipartimentale di studi umanistici|p=696}}</ref>}}
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==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book|last=Clough|first=Cecil H.|title=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|volume=7|year=1970|chapter=BECICHEMO, Marino|chapter-url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marino-becichemo_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|website=Treccani.it|ref=harv}}
*{{cite web|title=BEČIĆ, Marin|url=http://hbl.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=1553|website=Hrvatski biografski leksikon [Croatian Biographical Lexicon]|publisher=Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža|accessdate=3 March 2018|ref={{harvid|HBL}} }}
*{{cite journal|last1=Čoralić|first1=Lovorka|title=Iz prošlosti Paštrovića|year=2018|pages=22-24|url=http://montenegrina.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Iz-proslosti-Pastrovica.pdf|accessdate=31 March 2018|ref=harv}}
*{{cite book|last=Vukmanović|first=Jovan|title=Паштровићи: антропогеографско-етнолошка испитивања|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o7wzAAAAIAAJ|year=1960|publisher=Obod|ref=harv}}
*{{cite book|author=Gianna Pomata|title=Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TqT_od-UHNQC&pg=PA109|year=2005|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-16229-6|pages=109, 138|quote=<!--Marino Becichemo-->}}
*{{cite book|author=John Monfasani|title=Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy: Selected Articles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gp-gAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Ashgate Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-86078-403-6|p=176|quote=<!--Marino Becichemo-->}}


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Revision as of 19:01, 14 April 2018

Marin Beçikemi (Template:Lang-la) (1468-1526) was an Albanian 15th and 16th century humanist, orator, and chronist. It is unknown where was his place of birth, but it is supposed that he was born in the city Shkodër in Albania, which was under Venetian rule at that time.[1][2] After the Siege of Shkodra, he left Shkodër and went to Ulcinj and from that to Italy in Brescia.[1] There he learnt Latin and Greek language.[1] In 1492 he went to Dubrovnik where he became school rector and befriended with Ivan Gučetić, ragusian poet. In 1500, he gained full citizenship of Venetian republic and opened humanist school. In 1501 he went to Brescia where he worked at the university and printed his first works in Latin, such as Observationum collectanea in primum Historiae naturali librum (1504–1506).[1] In 1503 he published a panegyric to the Venetian Senate concerning the siege; it was translated into Albanian and English and included with Marin Barleti's work, The Siege of Shkodra, version published in 1962. He wrote commentaries on Cicero, Pliny the Elder and other classical philosophers. Couple of years later, he became a professor of rhetoric at the University of Padova.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "BECICHEMO, Marino". Treccani. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. ^ "BEČIĆ, Marin". Croatian Biographical Lexicon. Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  3. ^ Aleks Buda (1985). Fjalori Enciklopedik Shqiptar. Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH. p. 81. Retrieved 9 June 2012.