Niccolò Liburnio

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Niccolò Liburnio (* 1474 in Friuli ; † September 22, 1557 in Venice ) was an Italian humanist, grammarian, lexicographer, Italianist and Romanist .

life and work

Liburnio studied in Venice, was ordained a priest, stayed in Mantua and Rome, made extensive trips through Europe with Cardinal Miguel da Silva (1480–1556) and was most recently canon of San Marco in Venice. For 50 years he published numerous works, among which the language-related ones are of greatest interest today. In the Questione della lingua he got involved with a dialogue at the side of Pietro Bembo .

Works (selection)

  • Opere gentile & amorose del preclaro homo Nicolo Liburnio veneto , Venice 1502
  • Le Seluette di messer Nicolao Lyburnio , Venice 1513
  • Le vulgari elegantie , Venice 1521, Milan 1965, San Maro Torinese 2005
  • De copia et varietate facundiae Latinae , Venice 1522
  • Le Tre fontane di messer Nicolò Liburnio in tre libbri diuise, sopra la grammatica, et eloquenza di Dante, Petrarcha, et Boccaccio. Dialogo sopra certe lettere , ouer charatteri trouati per messer Giouan Giorgio Trissino, Venice 1526, 1534, San Maro Torinese 2005 (glossaries; Dialogo sopra le lettere del Trissino, in: Trattati sull'ortografia del volgare 1524-26 , edited by B. Richardson, Exeter 1984, pp. 131-146)
  • Le occorrenze umane , Venice 1546, Milan 1970
  • Dizionario geografico. De montibus, silvis, fontibus , ed. by GF Pasini, Turin 1978

literature

  • Carlo Dionisotti: Niccolò Liburnio e la letteratura cortigiana . In: Letterature italiane 14, 1962, pp. 33-58
  • Luigi Peirone: Tradizione ed irrequietezza in Nicolò Liburnio . Geneva 1968
  • Gunnar Tancke: The Italian dictionaries from the beginning to the publication of the "Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca" (1612). Inventory and analysis . Tubingen 1984
  • Aleksandr Pavlovic Lobodanov: Istorija rannej ital'janskoj leksikografii . Moscow 1998
  • Aleksandr Lobodanov: Cenni sulla storia del pensiero lessicografico nei primi vocabolari del volgare . In: Studi di lessicografia italiana 16, 1999, pp. 253-265
  • Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , 65, 2005 sv (by Simona Mammana)

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personal data
SURNAME Liburnio, Niccolò
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian humanist, grammarian, lexicographer, Italianist and Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1474
PLACE OF BIRTH Friuli
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1557
Place of death Venice