Name

Pietro da Capua Ursoleo

Original name

Main activity

Calligrapher

Secondary activity

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Education place

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Activity place

Naples, Rome

Activity institution

Court of Alfonso of Aragon, Holy See

Activity start date

1448, 1477

Activity end date

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Date of death

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/Ursoleo%2C%20Pietro%20da%20Capua/library

Descriptive card

He was calligrapher at the court of pope Sixtus IV, where he copied the Latin sections of the codex BAV, Urb. Lat. 1384 (ca. 1480-1482) containing the Arabic-Latin version of the Qur'an made by Raimondo Moncada. He was previously calligrapher in Naples at the court of Alfonso of Aragon, starting from 1448.

Entry author

Sara Fani