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Gioacchino [Giocchino] di Gigantibus de Rottenburg [Gioacchino d’Alemagna; Giacchino miniatore]
( fl 1453–85). German illuminator, active in Italy. He may originally have come from Rothenburg ob der Tauber. He went to Rome via Florence in 1453 and illuminated books for Pope Pius II. Between 1460 and 1469 he stayed at Siena several times in the papal retinue and was occasionally employed by the cathedral chapter. On 1 April 1471 he was appointed as scribe and illuminator in the library of King Ferdinand I of Naples, and payments to ‘Gioacchino di Gigantibus’ are recorded on both 23 March and 1 April 1471. He copied a volume of Plutarch in 1473 and works by Pliny and Ovid in 1474. Two further manuscripts, also produced for the King of Naples, are dated 1476: Super libros sententiarum quaestiones (London, BL, Add. MSS 15270–73) by the 9th-century scholar John Scotus Erigena and Cardinal Bessarion’s Adversus calumniatorem Platonis (Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 12946). He received a payment for the latter book as early as 9 November 1473 and is last mentioned at Naples on 15 November 1480. He returned to the papal court in the following year, serving under Sixtus IV, for whom he copied and illuminated a Psalter (London, V&A, MS. 1028), and also Innocent VIII. Payments for the illumination of books in the papal library are recorded on 17 August 1484 and 20 September 1485.
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