Natalis Comes
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Natale Conti (Natalis Comes) (1520-1582) was an important Italian mythographer, and a poet, humanist and historian. His Mythologiae, in Latin, became a standard work on classical mythology for Renaissance Europe[1], and was reprinted in a large number of editions. Ernst Gombrich[1] comments that The most apocryphical and outlandish versions of classical and pseudo-classical tales are here displayed and commented upon as the ultimate esoteric wisdom.
He was born in Milan; his working life was spent in Venice.
[edit] References
- Natale Conti's Mythologiae (2006) translated and annotated by John Mulryan and Steven Brown
[edit] Notes
- ^ Symbolic Images: Studies in the art of the Renaissance II (1972) p.120, in the essay The Subject of Poussin's Orion.
