Giovanni Tortelli

Giovanni Tortelli (* around 1400 probably in Arezzo, † before April 26, 1466 probably in Rome ) was an Italian humanist.

Giovanni Tortelli had first contacts with the humanistic culture of the city of Florence in his childhood. In particular, he developed an interest in Greek, which he learned with Marsuppini Carlo and Francesco Filelfo. From 1435 to 1437 he was with Vitorino da Feltre in Mantua to humanistic studies. 1433 he was appointed to a professorship to the studio in Florence. From 1435 to 1437 he stayed to Studies and the deepening of the Greek language in Constantinople Opel. 1445 he became a doctor of theology in Bologna. Well from 1450 to 1455 he was Bibliothecarius the library of Nicholas V, from which the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana developed. In 1453 he became the abbot of the monastery of San Sebastiano in comenda in Alatri. He let renew the old walls and then spent most of the rest of his life there.

Tortelli was a friend of Lorenzo Valla, both are among the pioneers in the study of the Latin language. He benefited from the vast knowledge of the known at the time of the ancient authors. Nicholas V. His main work was dedicated to the Commentariorum grammatical corum de Orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum opus, in which he offered a list of Latin words with the origin from the Greek. In the proem he put his point of view on a target language reform as the basis for a cultural, emanating from Papsthof, renewal Represents the work had enormous influence and was regarded as complementary to Vallas Elegantiae linguae Latinae. Valla devoted his writing Tortelli. He also wrote with De medicina et medicis a small medical writing. Also very influential was his at least 17 times aufgelegtes treatise on Scripture cornucopiae sive linguae Latinae Commentaries of Niccolò Pirotti.

Writings

• Commentariorum grammatical corum de Orthographia dictionum e Graecis tractarum opus. Rome 1471
• Vocabularius optimus Gemma vocabulorum mérito dictus Quia Duo bus milibus optimorum vocabulorum maior est priori gemmula et multo correctior. 1495
• Aretini Orthographia. Ioannis Tortelii Lima quaedam by Georgium Vallam tractatum de Orthographia. 1501
• Catholicon, seu Universal Vocabularium ac summa gram matices F. Johannis Genuensis ... nuper a magistro Petro Egidio ex parte auctum et recognitum, ac nunc demum from Jodoco Badio Ascensio ... Accessit ... quem Cornucopiam dicunt, Calepino. 1514
• Della medicina e dei medici = De medicina et medicis = On medicine and physicians, ed. and translated by Luigi Belloni and Dorothy M. Schullian, Milan 1954.