Claudio Tolomei

Claudio Tolomei (* 1492 in Asciano, † 1556 ) was an Italian writer, critic and philologist.

Claudio Tolomei was born in 1492 in Asciano Siena. He studied law in Bologna, where he published in 1514 his first work Laude delle Donne Bolognesi ( Praise of Bolognese women). After his return to Siena he was at the university lecturer in law. During this time he wrote two Latin writings, De verbis corruptis iuris Civilis dialogus and Disputationes et paradoxa iuris Civilis, who have gone lost, however. Because of his followers to the party of the Medici in 1526, he had to go into exile and lived long in Rome and then Piacenza at Pier Luigi Farnese II and after his death to 1548 in Padua. At the end of his life he was ambassador to France, and finally bishop of Toulon.

In addition to smaller seals are mainly spoke his theoretical works of importance. In the book, e regole della nuova poesia insurance toscana Tolomei are rules for the use of traditional quantitative metrics and their application to the Tuscan- Italian poetry. Of outstanding importance for the language issue in Italy in the 16th century, the dialogue Il polito, which he wrote in 1525 under the pseudonym Adriano Franci and in which he, inter alia, to be turned against the orthography design of Gian Giorgio Trissino, although he affirmed the fundamental need for spelling reform. In another dialogue Il Cesano Tolomei defended the Tuscan Italian as default language in contrast to the views of Baldassare Castiglione language, Trissino and Alessandro de ' Pazzi.

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