Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger (1406 – October 1438) was a Renaissance humanist and translator from Greek into Latin. A grandson of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Elder, he was probably born in Florence. He was a pupil of Francesco Filelfo at the University of Bologna in 1428.Riccardo Fubini, "Castiglionchio, Lapo da, detto il Giovane", Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Vol. 22 (Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1979). He wrote a scurrilous deadpan satiric dialogue on the papal curia, De curiae commodis (1438), "On the benefits of the Curia".The work in Latin with an English translation is the subject of Christopher Celenza, Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger's De curiae commodis (1999). There also survives a collection of his letters.Elizabeth May McCahill, "Finding a Job as a Humanist: The Epistolary Collection of Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger", Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 4 (2004), pp. 1308–1345.
Works he translated include: the biographies of Solon, Themistocles, Pericles, Fabius Maximus, Publicola, Theseus, Romulus, Aratus and Artaxerxes I from Plutarch's Parallel Lives Several of Lucian's works: De fletu, De somnio, De sacrificiis, De tyranno, Calumnia, De longaevis, Patriae laudatio and Demonactis vita Isocrates: Nicocles, Ad Nicoclem and Oratio ad Daemonicum Josephus, Jewish Wars Theophrastus, Liber de impressionibus Demosthenes, Oratio funebris Xenophon, Praefectus equitum
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