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Oderisi da Gubbio (Gubbio, circa 1240 - Rome, 1299) was an Italian painter and manuscript illuminator of the 13th century. Few details of his life are known. Documents to his activities in Bologna span from 1262 to 1271. In 1292, he was called to Rome by Pope Boniface VIII to illuminate manuscripts in the papal library.〔(Treccani Encyclopedia ) entry〕 Attributed to Oderisi are: *Illuminated missals from the Canonica della Basilica di San Pietro of Rome; *''Digestium infortiatum'' of Justinian, National Library of Turin; * Conradin Bible, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; * ''Psalter 346'', University Library of Bologna; * A Bible, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. ==Oderisi in Dante's Purgatory== Oderisi was immortalized by Dante Alighieri, who placed him in Purgatory.〔(Divina Commedia blog )〕 Recognizing him, Dante refers to Oderisi as ''honor of Gubbio and the honor of that art of illumination sought after in Paris?'' Oderisi replies that vanity brought him here; that the brush of his pupil, Franco Bolognese is more worthy. In some of the more stunning poetry of the Cantos, he bemoans the ills brought about by earthly vanity: ::''Oh, vain glory of all human power! ::''How soon the green from the summit fades, ::''If not rotted by the age's grossness! ::''Once the painter Cimabue thought ::''He held the field; now Giotto is all the rage, ::''Obscuring the fame of the former. ::''Also true, no sooner one man takes from another ::''The glory of our tongue, thereupon another ::''Is born, who will chase them both from that nest. ::''Their mundane rumors are but a gust ::''of wind, shifting from here to there, ::''changing names, because they change sides. ::''Even if you could age a thousand years ::''After the crib and breast; it would be an inch ::''To eternity, a blink of an eyelid compared ::''To the slowest of the turning spheres. Translation from Dante, Purgatorio, XI, 79-123 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oderisi da Gubbio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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