Cosimo Bartoli

Cosimo Bartoli (* December 20, 1503 in Florence, † October 25, 1572 ) was an Italian humanist, translator, art theorist, and diplomat. He also operated several times as a conceptual designer scenic, architectural and sculptural objects. His literary works constitute not least because of Bartoli's close personal connections with artists such as Michelangelo and Giorgio Vasari, a valuable source for the history of Fine Arts in Florence in the Cinquecento.

Bartoli was mainly engaged in the service of Cosimo I de ' Medici with simple administrative tasks and secretary tasks. In the 1560s he was sent as ambassador of the Grand Duke to Venice, where he produced several (closed for some time ) manuscripts of his own works and translations of foreign titles in print. The first group includes such heterogeneous works as the probably already 1550-1552 authored literary analysis of Dante Alighieri in the Ragionamenti Accademici or the mathematical and optical investigations in Del modo di misurare le distantie. Bartoli thus belongs - as for example, Lodovico Dolce - to the group of so-called Italian Polyhistorii which, although characterized by a wide knowledge and interests bandwidth and often very extensive literary output, in his lifetime but a little ( financial) recognition for their achievements found.

In his capacity as a translator art-theoretical writings of Leon Battista Alberti (L' architettura and Della pittura ) and Albrecht Dürer made ​​Bartoli for the dissemination of the written in Latin treatises in the circles of artists as well as for the transfer of the artists knowledge on both sides of the Alps. In addition, its possible involvement in the drafting of the artist biographies of Giorgio Vasari is discussed intensively in research. Practically involved in artistic projects in Florence Bartoli was also his close friend Vasari, for whom he designed a number of allegories and image issues (for example, 1555-1572 at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence) realized by the painter and his workshop. Furthermore, Bartoli designed in the early 1550s independently the architectural design of the Palazzo Ricasoli and the sculptural decoration of the adjoining garden by the sculptor Francesco Camilliani.

Publications (selection)

  • L' architettura di Leonbattista Alberti. Tradotta in lingua fiorentina because Cosimo Bartoli. Torre Tino, Florence, 1550.
  • Del modo di misurare distantie le, le superficie, i corpi, piante le, le provincie, le le altre cose tutte Prospettive & terrene, che gli possono occorrere a huomini. Secondo le regole d' Euclide vere gli altri più & de Lodati scrittori. Francesco de ' Franceschi Senese, Venice 1564th
  • Ragionamenti Accademici di Cosimo Bartoli et Gentil'huomo Accademico Fiorentino, sopra alcuni luoghi difficili di Dante. Con alcune INVENTIONI & significati, & la Tavola di piu cose notabili. Francesco de ' Franceschi Senese, Venice 1567.
  • Opus coli Morali di Leon Batista Alberti, gentil'huomo fiorentino. Francesco de ' Franceschi Senese, Venice 1568th
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