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L'opera letteraria

La sua opera letteraria è principalmente riassumibile in quattro epistole metriche, oltre ad altre opere minori in versi. Grazie alla sua conoscenza dei classici latini, come Catullo, Livio, Orazio e Seneca, fu autore di una Nota sul trimetro giambico. Lovati frequentò molto le biblioteche del nord Italia, specie quella del monastero di Pomposa, dove recuperò numerosi testi originali considerati perduti, compreso un testo latino su Tristano e Isotta.

Literary Work

Lovati's literary work is mainly summed up in four letters, as well as other minor works. Thanks to his knowledge of Roman classical writers and poets, such as Catullus, Livy, Horace, and Seneca, he wrote a note on the iambic trimeter. Lovati frequented libraries in northern Italy, especially the library at the monastery of Pomposa, where he recovered several original texts that were considered lost, inlcuding a Latin text on Tristan and Iseult.

L'attività filologica e archeologica

L'opera filologica di Lovati fu di ispirazione per il Petrarca e per Boccaccio, tanto che Petrarca dedicò a Lovati un paragrafo sul secondo volume del Rerum memorandarum libri, rimproverandolo per aver sprecato il suo talento poetico nel lavoro in tribunale, e considerandolo come il più grande poeta della generazione precedente. A Pomposa Lovati riscoprì l'Etruscus, il codice completo delle tragedie di Seneca.

Philological and Archaeological Activity

Lovati's philological work was inspired by Petrarch and Boccaccio so much that Petrarch dedicated a paragraph to Lovati in the second volume of the Rerum memorandarum libri, reproaching him for having wasted his poetic talent working in court and consideriding him as the greatest poet of the previous generation. In Pomposa, Lovati rediscovered Etruscus, the complete tragic works of Seneca.

L'Arca di Antenore

Lovati deve la propria fama anche ad una questione occorsa durante la sua carriera di giudice, quando nel 1274 fu chiamato a giudicare l'attribuzione di un'arca funeraria rinvenuta durante la costruzione di un ospizio per trovatelli in Via San Biagio a Padova. L'arca, contenente due bare in cipresso e piombo, venne attribuita al principe troiano Antenore, il mitologico fondatore della città. Un antico detto, circolante fra gli ambienti dotti preumanistici del tempo, recitava infatti: "Quando la capra parlerà e il lovo risponderà, Antenore si troverà." Il Capomastro che aveva effettuato la scoperta dei resti si chiamava Capra, il lovo (in dialetto veneto il lupo) fu identificato con lo stesso Lovato, pertanto Lovati si schierò a favore dell'originalità del reperto e sostenne la tesi dell'appartenenza ad Antenore. I capi della città, cercando di ottenere una legittimazione mitologica per la città di recente sviluppo, sostennero la tesi di buon grado. A Lovati venne concesso il privilegio di istoriare l'arca in marmo dettando due quartine in latino, incise sui lati della stessa dal maestro artigiano Capra. Solo nel 1985 analisi scientifiche hanno escluso l'appartenenza dei resti all'eroe troiano, ma hanno dimostrato che il manufatto risale al II secolo-III secolo dopo Cristo. Lovati fu sepolto all'esterno della chiesa di San Lorenzo, in un'arca accanto alla tomba di Antenore.[1] La chiesa nel 1808 venne sconsacrata con la soppressione dei monasteri, ma nel 1874 la tomba fu spostata temporaneamente in piazza del Santo. Dopo la demolizione nel 1937 dei resti della chiesa e la costruzione di piazza Antenore, nel 1942 la tomba fu riportata nei pressi del luogo originario.

The Ark of Antenor

Lovati owes his fame to a matter that occurred during his career as a judge, when in 1274 he was called to judge the attribution of a burial ark discovered during the construction of an orphanage on San Biagio Street in Padua. The ark containing two coffins was attributed to the Trojan prince Antenor, the mythical founder of the city. An old saying said, "When the goat speaks and the wolf answers, Antenor will be found." The foreman who made ​​the discovery of the remains was refered to as the Goat, and the wolf was identified with Lovato himself. Therefore Lovati was in favor of the originality of the finding and agreed it belonged to Antenor. The leaders of the city, looking to obtain a mythological legitimacy to the newly developed city, supported the thesis willingly. Lovati was granted the privilege of illustrating the ark with marble and engraving two quatrains in Latin. Only in 1985 have scientific analysis excluded the possesion of the remains to the Trojan hero, but they have showed that the artifact dates back to the second and third centuries. Lovati was buried outside the church of San Lorenzo, in an ark next to the tomb of Antenor. The church was desecrated in 1808 with the dissolution of the monasteries, but in 1874 the tomb was moved temporarily to the Piazza of the Saint. After the demolition in 1937 of the remnants of the church and the building of the Piazza Antenor, in 1942 the tomb was brought back near the original site.

Literary Work
Lovati's literary work is mainly summed up in four letters, as well as other minor works. Thanks to his knowledge of Roman classical writers and poets, such as Catullus, Livy, Horace, and Seneca, he wrote a note on the iambic trimeter. Lovati frequented libraries in northern Italy, especially the library at the monastery of Pomposa, where he recovered several original texts that were considered lost, inlcuding a Latin text on Tristan and Iseult.

Philological and Archaeological Activity
Lovati's philological work was inspired by Petrarch and Boccaccio so much that Petrarch dedicated a paragraph to Lovati in the second volume of the Rerum memorandarum libri, reproaching him for having wasted his poetic talent working in court and consideriding him as the greatest poet of the previous generation. In Pomposa, Lovati rediscovered Etruscus, the complete tragic works of Seneca.

The Ark of Antenor
Lovati owes his fame to a matter that occurred during his career as a judge, when in 1274 he was called to judge the attribution of a burial ark discovered during the construction of an orphanage on San Biagio Street in Padua. The ark containing two coffins was attributed to the Trojan prince Antenor, the mythical founder of the city. An old saying said, "When the goat speaks and the wolf answers, Antenor will be found." The foreman who made ​​the discovery of the remains was refered to as the Goat, and the wolf was identified with Lovato himself. Therefore Lovati was in favor of the originality of the finding and agreed it belonged to Antenor. The leaders of the city, looking to obtain a mythological legitimacy to the newly developed city, supported the thesis willingly. Lovati was granted the privilege of illustrating the ark with marble and engraving two quatrains in Latin. Only in 1985 have scientific analysis excluded the possesion of the remains to the Trojan hero, but they have showed that the artifact dates back to the second and third centuries. Lovati was buried outside the church of San Lorenzo, in an ark next to the tomb of Antenor.[2] The church was desecrated in 1808 with the dissolution of the monasteries, but in 1874 the tomb was moved temporarily to the Piazza of the Saint. After the demolition in 1937 of the remnants of the church and the building of the Piazza Antenor, in 1942 the tomb was brought back near the original site.