Fabrizio Luna

Fabrizio Luna (* in the 15th century in Naples ; † before 1559 ibid) was an Italian lexicographer.

life and work

Fabrizio Luna was a Neapolitan, but had also met Pietro Bembo personally while traveling to northern Italy . In 1536 he published a rich and original early glossary of Italian in which, in relation to the Questione della lingua, he took the view of a "supra-regional judicial language to be formed from the various dialectal court languages ​​and dialects" (Pfister) and alongside the usual classics Dante , Petrarca and Boccaccio and Ariosto quoted.

Works

• Vocabulario di cinquemila vocabuli toschi non men oscuri che utili e necessarij del Furioso, Bocaccio, Petrarcha e Dante nouamente dechiarati e raccolti da Fabricio Luna per alfabeta ad utilità di chi legge, scrive e favella , Naples 1536

literature

• Gunnar Tancke: The Italian dictionaries from the beginning to the publication of the "Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca" (1612). Inventory and analysis , Niemeyer, Tübingen 1984, ISBN 3-484-52198-8 .
• Max Pfister: 187. The Italian lexicography from its beginnings to 1900. In: Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, Ladislav Zgusta (ed.): Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of the volume . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990, ISBN 3-11-012420-3 , Sp. 1844–1863 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Fiammetta Cirilli:  LUNA, Fabricio (Fabrizio). In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 66:  Lorenzetto – Macchetti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2006.