Filippo Sassetti
Filippo Sassetti (* 1540 in Florence , † 1588 in Goa , India ) was a Florentine merchant, linguist and traveler.
Life
Sassetti attended various academies in Florence, he wrote a discourse on Dante and made a translation of Aristotle's poetics . He studied in Florence and Pisa and entered the Accademia degli Alterati . On his trade trips Sassetti came to India via Constantinople and Tehran . In order to expand his position as a trader, he soon took an interest in Sanskrit . Sassetti is one of the first Europeans to deal with this language and script. Around 1585 he discovered word similarities between the Indo-Aryan languages and Italian .
At the age of 48, Sassetti died in Goa and found his final resting place there.
Fonts
- Ettore Marcucci (Ed.): Lettere edite e inedite di Filippo Sassetti. Raccolte e annotate . Le Monnier, Florence 1855.
literature
- Jean-Claude Muller: Early stages of language comparison from Sassetti to Sir William Jones . In: Kratylos . Critical report and review organ for Indo-European and general linguistics , vol. 31 (1986), issue 1, p. 31f. ISSN 0023-4567
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Claude Muller: Early stages of language comparison from Sassetti to Sir William Jones (1786). Kratylos 1986
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sassetti, Filippo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Florentine merchant |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1540 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
DATE OF DEATH | 1588 |
Place of death | Goa , India |