Fracanzano da Montalboddo

Fracanzano da Montalboddo is editor of the anthology Paesi novamente retrovati , printed in Vicenza in 1507 , the first printed, comprehensive collection of discovery reports of the early modern period.

For the first time in Vicenza in a will dated August 12, 1495 as "francisco .q. vitalis de m on te alboto marchi ae anconitan ae pro fessore gr am matic ae “mentioned; Monte Alboto is identical to today's Ostra in the province of Ancona. In 1499 he published the Latin textbook De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii by Martianus Capella . Like the Paesi novamente retrovati later, this was printed by Enrico Ca 'Zeno in Vicenza. In the foreword he appears as “Fr an cisc [us] Vitalis Bodi an [us]”, in a letter to the Venetian printer Aldo Manuzio he signs “Franciscus Vitalis Bodianus tuus cognomento Fracantianus”; he mentions a job as a private tutor there. In the Libri degli Estimi of Vicenza it is listed in the years 1505 and also in 1519, where it is recorded as "grammatico" or "profesori de gramaticha".

literature

• Norbert Ankenbauer: "that i wanted to experience meer newer dyng". The language of the new in the “Paesi novamente retrovati” (Vicenza, 1507) and in its German translation (Nuremberg, 1508) . Frank & Timme, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86596-310-9 (Zugl .: Erlangen, Nürnberg, Univ., Diss., 2009).
• Norbert Ankenbauer (Ed.): Paesi novamente retrovati - Newe unbekanthe landed. A digital edition of early discovery reports. Editiones Electronicae Guelferbytanae, Wolfenbüttel 2012 ( online ).
• Antonella Pagano:  Fracanzio da Montalboddo. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 49:  Forino – Francesco da Serino. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1997.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Ankenbauer (2010), pp. 52–55.
2. ↑ Quoted from Ankenbauer (2010), p. 317; see. Ankenbauer (2010), pp. 53–54.