Masuccio, Salernitano, active 15th century

LC control no.	n 79105658
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Masuccio, Salernitano, active 15th century *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Guardati, Masuccio, active 15th century Guardati, Tommaso, active 15th century Guardato, Masuzo, active 15th century Guardato, Tommaso, active 15th century Masius, Salernitanus, active 15th century Massuccio, Salernitano, active 15th century Masuccio, da Salerno, active 15th century Masuccio dei Guardati, Salernitano, active 15th century Masuccio Salernitano, 15th cent. Masuccio, Salernitano, 15th cent. Masucio, Guardato, active 15th century Masucio, Salernitano, active 15th century Masuzo, Guardato, active 15th century Salernitano, Masuccio, active 15th century
Beginning date	14
Located	Naples (Italy)
Birth date	1410~
Death date	1475
Place of birth	Salerno (Italy)
Place of death	Salerno (Italy)
Affiliation	Naples (Kingdom)
Profession or occupation	Authors Courts and courtiers Diplomats
Found in	Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare, 2000: t.p. (Masuccio Salernitano) p. 1 (b. ca. 1410; d. 1475) Masuccio, Salernitano. Nouellino, 1492: title page (name presented in uppercase as MASVC CIO SALERNITANO) colophon (Finisce el nouellino [de] Masuccio Salernitano) Masuccio, Salernitano. [Novellino], 1483, via BEIC, September 25, 2019: colophon (Qui finisce il Nouellino con le L argomenti & morali conclusio[n]i dalcuni exempli per Masucio Guardato nobele salernitano ...) De Propris, Fabio. "GUARDATI, Tommaso," in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, v. 60 (2003), accessed online via Treccani website, September 25, 2019 ("GUARDATI (Guardato), Tommaso (Masuccio Salernitano)"; born in Salerno or, less probably, Sorrento around 1410; probably entered the service of Raimondo Orsini as secretary in his youth or first maturity, and began to frequent the Aragonese court in Naples; began writing novelle around 1450; secretary to Roberto Sanseverino, prince of Salerno, 1463; probably died before August 12, 1475, date of a document prepared by another secretary to Roberto's son and successor Antonello Sanseverino; first edition of Novellino, now lost, published in 1476, with a dedicatory letter whose tone suggests the author was already deceased) <http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tommaso-guardati_(Dizionario-Biografico)/> Enciclopedia on line, via Treccani website, September 25, 2019: (Masùccio Salernitano, real name Tommaso Guardati, author of novelle, born in Salerno; died, perhaps in Salerno, 1475; courtier in the court of Aragon, then served Roberto Sanseverino as secretary; Novellino, his collection of 50 novelle, was first published posthumously in 1476) <http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/masuccio-salernitano> Italian Wikipedia, September 25, 2019 (article title Masuccio Salernitano; Tommaso Guardati, called Masuccio Salernitano, or Masuccio da Salerno (born Salerno or Sorrento, approximately 1410, died Salerno, 1475), was an Italian writer and author of novelle; served at the court of Alfonso V of Aragon in Naples; after 1463, returned to Salerno and was secretary to Roberto Sanseverino; recalled solely for Novellino, a collection of 50 satirical and grotesque tales, published posthumously in 1476) Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, September 25, 2019 (Masuccio, Salernitano; other names: Massuccio, Salernitano; Masuccio, Tommaso; Tommaso, Masuccio; Masuccio, dei Guardati; Salernitano, Masuccio; Guardati, Tommaso; Guardato, Masuzo; Masuzo, Guardato; Masius, Salernitanus; Guardato, Tommaso; Tommaso, Guardati; Masuccio, von Salerno; life dates: 1410-1475; Italian writer, author of Il novellino) Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF autorités, September 25, 2019 (Masuccio de Salerne (1410?-1475), forme courante français; Masuccio Salernitano (1410?-1475), forme internationale italien; BN Cat. gén.: Masuccio dei Guardati, Salernitano) EDIT 16, September 25, 2019 (Masuccio : Salernitano <ca. 1410-1475?>; name in editions: Massuccio Salernitano; Masuccio Salernitano)
Associated language	ita