Niccolò Perotti

Niccolò Perotti, also Perotto or Nicolaus Perottus, (* 1429 in Sassoferrato, † 1480) was an Italian humanist and author of the first modern Latin grammar school Rudimenta gram matices.

1452 he was in Bologna by the Emperor Frederick III. crowned in recognition of his welcome speech to the poet. Since 1458 he was Archbishop of Siponto. At times he also served as papal governor in southern Italy. He was secretary to Cardinal Bessarion Basilius.

Commissioned by Pope Nicholas V. he translated Polybius ' Roman history, for which he, the Pope gave five hundred new ducats.

As a professor at the University of Bologna he wrote the Latin grammar school Rudimenta gram matices ( printed in 1473 ). His Cornu copiae, titled after the cornucopia of Copia, the ancient personification of abundance and wealth, is an applied as a commentary on the epigrams of Martial plant encyclopedic character, which was first printed posthumously in 1489 and wide as a reference for Latin word explanations and humanistic education knowledge dissemination found.

Together with the Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci he collected for the Pope books. In addition, he copied about 1470 by hand 32 animal fables that may have been made by the Roman writer Phaedrus and its book of fables attached as Appendix Perottina. His Latin grammar and a collection of quotations cornucopiae remained for a long time one of Europe's most popular Latin Dictionary.

Works

  • Translation of the first five books of Polybius, originated 1452-1454, printed by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz, Rome 1473
  • Translation of the Enchiridion of Epictetus for Nicholas V: Edited by Revilo Pendleton Olivier, Niccolò Perotti 's Version of the Enchiridion of Epictetus, University of Illinois Press, Urbana (Ill.) 1954
  • Welcome speech on the occasion of the arrival of Frederick III. in Bologna, from 1452nd first edition in Albrecht von Eyb, Margarita poetica, Nuremberg 1472
  • Epistola de Bononia quomodo antiquitus vocabatur, from 1453 or 1454 Edited by Fabrizio Lollini, Bessarione e Niccolò Perotti a Bologna. Due episodic poco noti, in: Schede umanistiche 4 (1990 ), pp. 55-61
  • Rudimenta gram matices ( 1468 ): Electronic Edition W. Keith Percival, after the autograph MS Vat lat 6737 and the first edition Rome 1473, Kansas University Scholar Works, 2010: PDF; Digitized output of Heinrich Quentell, Cologne 1501, Cologne University Library :; Digitized output of Sebastian Gryphius, Lyon 1541, the project CAMENA - ITALI the Mannheim University Library :; other issues in the digital library of the Munich Digitization Center:
  • De Horatius Flaccus generibus metrorum quibus et Severinus Boethius usi sunt ( processing of Centimetrum of Servius ), Bologna 1471
  • Libellus de metris odarum Horatianarum, Paris 1528
  • Refutatio deliramentorum Georgii Trapezuntii 1471, some possibly written by Domenico Calderini, the text Perotti would have edited and expanded in this case; ed. Ludwig Mohler, Cardinal Bessarion as a theologian, humanist and statesman, Volume III: From Bessarion's circle of scholars, Paderborn 1942, reprint Scientia Verlag, Aalen 1967, p 343-375 ( Introduction and Text ), pp. 594-597 accompanying letter Pirotti
  • Latin translations of Greek writings Bessarion, see John Monfasani, Bessarion Latinus, in: Rinascimento 21 (1981 ), pp. 165-209, and Still More on Bessarion Latinus, ibid 23 (1983 ), pp. 217-235
  • . Cornucopiae, posthumously Venice 1489 Edited by Jean -Louis Charlet, Nicolai Perotti Cornu copiae seu linguae Latinae Commentaries, Istituto di Studi Internazionale Piceni, Sassoferrato 1989-2001, 8 volumes, digitized version of the Venice edition in 1513, the University and State Library Dusseldorf:
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