Benedetto Buommattei

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Benedetto Buommattei
Benedetto Buommattei's "Pala" in the Accademia della Crusca

Benedetto Buommattei (born July 1581 in Florence , † January 1, 1648 in Florence) was an Italian Romance scholar and grammarian.

life and work

Buommattei (also: Buonmattei ) studied law in Pisa , was ordained a priest in 1608 and received a doctorate in theology in Florence in 1611 . His love was mathematics and grammar. In 1627 Buommattei was accepted into the Accademia della Crusca , in 1632 appointed professor of the Tuscan (Italian) language at the University of Pisa, in 1637 in the same capacity at the University of Florence, where he also read about Dante and in 1638 met John Milton .

Buommattei is the most important Italian grammarian of the 17th century. His work Della lingua toscana was created from 1613, first circulated as a manuscript, first published in 1623 in Venice (2nd edition 1626) and in 1643 in the final version (3rd edition) in Florence (from 1714 numerous editions in the 18th century, Milan 1907, Florence 2007).

Works

  • Modo di consecrar le vergini secundo l'uso del Pontifical Romano. Con la dichiarazion de misteri delle cerimonie, che in quell'azion si fanno, Venice 1622
  • Della lingua toscana , ed. by Michele Colombo, Florence 2007 (preface by Giulio Lepschy)

literature

  • Ilio Calabresi:  BUONMATTEI, Benedetto. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 15:  Buffoli-Caccianemici. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1972.
  • Pierre Swiggers: Linguistique et grammaticographie romanes, in: Lexikon der Romanistische Linguistik I, 1, Tübingen 2001, p. 36–121 (here p. 74)
  • Anthony Michael Cinquemani, Glad to go for a feast. Milton, Buonmattei, and the Florentine accademici , Frankfurt am Main 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Buommattei, Benedetto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buonmattei, Benedetto; Riboboli, Benduccio; Ripieno (name as academic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Romance studies and grammarist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1581
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1648
Place of death Florence