Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti

Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti (Bologna 1445 – Bologna 1510) was an Italian humanist, author, poet and prose writer.

Born in Bologna, he first served as a secretary for Count Andrea Bentivoglio, and then from 1491 was the client of Ercole d'Este in Ferrara. At the end of 1400, Sabadino degli Arienti wrote a description of the palace of Belriguardo.

Carolyn James, the Cassamarca Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, is the author of two books based on Sabadino degli Arienti.

Works In his collection of short stories from the late 15th century, Novelle Porretane (1483), Sabadino degli Arienti includes the story of a valet, who, unhappy with his social position, asks his lord to knight him. In Ginevera de le clare donne (1490) he praised the elite to which Isabella belonged, and to whom she was related by birth and marriage, while offering her a congenial model of behaviour to follow in her new role as marchioness.

De Hymeneo (1487) De Triumphis Religionis Descrizione del giardino della Viola (1501)