Alessandro Citolini

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Alessandro Citolini (* around 1500 in Serravalle (Vittorio Veneto) , † around 1582 in London ) was an Italian poet, Romance scholar , grammarian and lexicographer.

life and work

Citolini was a student of Giulio Camillo Delminio. In 1561 he published a lexically rich encyclopedia under the title Tipocosmia , which was cannibalized by John Florio . Citolini was considered a heretic in Italy and therefore went to London via Geneva and Strasbourg in 1565, where he left a manuscript of an Italian grammar as a language teacher for Italian.

In Romance studies he is best known for his Lettera in difesa de la lingua volgare from 1540, which can be considered the forerunner and source of the Dialogo delle lingue (1542) by Sperone Speroni in 1542 and was reissued in 2003.

Works

  • Lettera di M. Alessandro Citolini in difesa de la lingua volgare , scritta al magnifico M. Cosmo Pallavicino, Venice 1540, 1551; Alessandro Citolini da Serravalle (Serravalle 1500 circa-Londra dopo 1582) e la Lettera de la lingua volgare , ed. by Nilo Faldon, Conegliano 1990; Lettera in difesa de la lingua volgare (1540) , ed. by Roberto Norbedo, Padua 2003
  • I luoghi di Alessandro Citolini , Venice 1541, 1551; ed. by Giampaolo Zagonel, Vittorio Veneto 1993
  • Tipocosmia , Venice 1561 (552 pages)
  • Scritti linguistici , ed. by Claudio Di Felice, Pescara 2003

literature

  • Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle sv
  • MG Bellorini, "La Grammatica de la lingua italiana" di Alessandro Citolini, in: English Miscellany 16, 1965, pp. 281-296
  • Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 26, 1982 sv (Author: Massimo Firpo)
  • Alexandra Fronduti, I teatri della memoria e del mondo: la Tipocosmia di Alessandro Citolini , Diss. Turin 1998
  • A. Antonini, La riflessione linguistica di Alessandro Citolini, in: Studi di grammatica italiana 18, 1999, pp. 257-282
  • D. Knox, An Arm and a Leg: Giordano Bruno and Alessandro Citolini in Elizabethan London. In: Reflexivity. Critical themes in the Italian Cultural Tradition . Essays by Members of the Department of Italian at University College London, ed. by Prue Shaw and John Took, Ravenna 2000, pp. 161-176
  • The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature , Oxford 2002 sv

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personal data
SURNAME Citolini, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet, Romanist, grammarian and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Serravalle (Vittorio Veneto)
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century
Place of death London