Martianus Capella
Latin prose writer of Late Antiquity · Writers · Lived 360 to 428 · aged 68
Martianus Minneus Felix Capella was a jurist, polymath and Latin prose writer of late antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the system of the seven liberal arts that structured early medieval education. He was a native of Madaura.
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Grammar teaching, from a 10th-century manuscript of De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Musica, illustration by Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora (15th century)
Naboth's representation of Martianus Capella's geo-heliocentric astronomical model (1573)
Retorica, illustration by Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora (15th century)About this person
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Writers
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Lived 360 to 428 · aged 68
