Henry of Settimello

Henry of Settimello (in Latin, Henricus Septimellensis or Henricus Pauper; in Italian, Arrigo or Arrighetto da Settimello) was a late 12th-century Italian poet. He was the author of De diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione ("On varying fortune and the consolation of philosophy"), a Latin poem in elegiac couplets. His Latin nickname (meaning "Henry the poor") is linked with a story that he could not afford paper and was forced to write his poems on old animal skins.

Bibliography

  • Arrighetto, ovvero Trattato contro all' avversità della fortuna di Arrigo da Settimello. Firenze: Domenico Maria Manni, 1730. [Latin with Italian prose translation]
  • Arrigo da Settimello, Elegia, ed. Clara Fossati, Florence, 2011. [Latin with Italian translation]
gollark: Further evidence of C bad.
gollark: If you're overly averse to being fired you may be unwilling to push back against issues at work.
gollark: But I don't mean they literally cannot remember the past, I mean they can't *accurately* remember it without distorting it.
gollark: That's true.
gollark: Maybe humans just don't have working long term memory.

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