Zambono di Andrea

Zambono di Andrea or d'Andrea (c. 1235 – 1315/1316) was a Paduan notary, poet and historian who wrote in Latin.

[1] Late in life Zambono and three of his sons—Andrea, Filippo and Virgilio—were forced into exile for a crime committed by Virgilio while on military assignment.

[1] Zambono wrote a short poem on the families of Padua, their castles and coats of arms.

It is known today only from quotations in the De generatione aliquorum civium urbis Padue of Giovanni da Nono.

[8] If nature had given me a little plot of ground And also had deprived me of the vain honor of having children, What blessed, pleasant peace and happy life I would always have had.

[1] According to Bernardino Scardeone [it], writing in the 15th century, Zambono also wrote a prose work "on his country from the foundation of the city" (de patria ab urbe condita).

Giovanni Francesco Capodilista [it], writing in 1434, identifies him as a "poet and historiographer" (poeta et ystoriographus), but distinguishes him from the author of the so-called Pseudo-Favafoschi chronicle, with whom, since 1627, he has often been conflated.

[11] Giuseppe Billanovich [it] alleged that his poetry showed the influence of Horace, Martial, Propertius, Tibullus, Catullus, Ovid's Ibis and Statius' Siluae.