Michael Tarchaniota Marullus was a Renaissance scholar, poet of Neolatin, humanist and soldier.
Background
Michael Marullus was born around 1458, at Constantinople (present day Istanbul, Turkey). Due to the Ottoman expansion in the 1460s, he fled with his parents to the Republic of Ragusa, where he spent his earliest years. From there, the family went further to Italy.
Education
Marullus was educated in Italy, in Ancona, and also perhaps in Venice and Padua; but for a subsistence was obliged to engage in the military profession.
Career
He united the two professions of letters and arms, and was no less a poet than a soldier. His Latin poems consist of epigrams and hymns, which were published at Florence in 1497. He took no part in the work of translation, then the favourite exercise of scholars, but he was understood to be planning some great work when he was drowned, on April 10, 1500, in the river Cecina near Volterra.
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Connections
Michael Tarchaniota Marullus was married to Alexandra Scala.