Giovanni Francesco Fortunio
Giovanni Francesco Fortunio (Zadar or Pordenone,[1] ca. 1470 – Fano, 1517) was an Italian grammarian, jurist and humanist.
Biography
[edit]He is especially remembered for having printed in 1516 the first ever Italian grammar book with the title Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua. It contains a morphological and orthographical analysis of the Tuscan vernacular based upon works by Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni Boccaccio.[2]
He was also an important politician and vicarian.
Bibliography
[edit]- A. Benedetti, Giovanni Francesco Fortunio umanista e primo grammatico della lingua italiana, Pordenone, s.d.
References
[edit]- ^ Uncertain origin; documents in Trieste report Portunaone, while at Ancona the origin is marked as Hyadria ("Zara") in Dalmatia
- ^ This work was very successful. The re-edition printed in Venice (Aldo Manuzio, 1552) is available at 24 Italian libraries: Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua, di messer Francesco Fortunio, nuouamente reuiste, et con somma diligentia corrette.
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