Niccolò Perotti

Niccolò Perotti (also Perotto , Latin Nicolaus Perottus ; * 1429 in Sassoferrato ; † 1480 ) was an Italian humanist and author of the first modern Latin school grammar Rudimenta grammatices .

In 1452 he was in Bologna by Emperor Friedrich III. crowned a poet in recognition of his welcoming speech . From 1458 he was Archbishop of Siponto . At times he also served as papal governor in southern Italy. He was secretary to Cardinal Bessarion .

On behalf of Pope Nicholas V , he translated Polybius ' Roman history, for which the Pope gave him five hundred new ducats.

As a professor at the University of Bologna , he wrote the Latin school grammar Rudimenta grammatices (printed in 1473). His Cornu Copiae , titled after the cornucopia of copia, the ancient personification of abundance and wealth, is a work of encyclopedic character designed as a commentary on Martial's epigrams , which was first printed posthumously in 1489 and widely used as a reference work for Latin word explanations and humanistic educational knowledge found.

Together with the Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci , he collected books for the Pope. In addition, around 1470 he personally copied 32 animal fables, which may have come from the Roman author Phaedrus and whose book of fables was added as an appendix to Perottina . His collection of Latin grammar and quotations, Cornucopiae , remained one of the most popular Latin reference works in Europe for a long time.

Works

• Translation of the first five books of Polybius, written 1452–1454, printed by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz , Rome 1473
• Translation of the Enchiridion of Epictetus for Nikolaus V .: Ed. By Revilo Pendleton Olivier, Niccolò Perotti's Version of the Enchiridion of Epictetus , University of Illinois Press, Urbana (Ill.) 1954
• Welcome speech on the occasion of the arrival of Frederick III. in Bologna, from 1452. First printed in Albrecht von Eyb, Margarita poetica , Nuremberg 1472
• Epistola De Bononia quomodo antiquitus vocabatur , from 1453 or 1454. Ed. By Fabrizio Lollini, Bessarione e Niccolò Perotti a Bologna: due episodi poco noti , in: Schede umanistiche 4 (1990), pp. 55-61
• Rudimenta grammatices (from 1468): Electronic edition W. Keith Percival, based on the autograph MS Vat. Lat. 6737 and the first edition Rome 1473, Kansas University ScholarWorks, 2010: PDF ; Digitized version of the edition by Heinrich Quentell , Cologne 1501, Cologne University Library: [1] ; Digitized version of the edition by Sebastian Gryphius, Lyon 1541, in the CAMENA-ITALI project of the Mannheim University Library : [2] ; further editions in the digital library of the Munich digitization center: [3]
• De generibus metrorum quibus Horatius Flaccus et Severinus Boethius usi sunt (adaptation of the centimeter by Servius ), Bologna 1471
• Libellus de metris odarum Horatianarum , Paris 1528
• Refutatio deliramentorum Georgii Trapezuntii , 1471, possibly partly written by Domenico Calderini , whose text Perotti would have edited and expanded in this case; ed. by Ludwig Mohler, Cardinal Bessarion as a theologian, humanist and statesman , Volume III: From Bessarions Gelehrtenkreis , Paderborn 1942, Neudruck Scientia Verlag, Aalen 1967, pp. 343–375 (introduction and text), pp. 594–597 accompanying letter Perottis
• Latin translations of Bessarion's Greek writings, see John Monfasani, Bessarion Latinus , in: Rinascimento 21 (1981), pp. 165-209, and Still More on Bessarion Latinus , ibid. 23 (1983), pp. 217-235
• Cornucopiae , posthumously Venice 1489. Ed. By Jean-Louis Charlet, Nicolai Perotti Cornu copiae seu linguae Latinae commentarii , Istituto Internazionale di Studi Piceni, Sassoferrato 1989–2001, 8 volumes, digitized version of the Venice 1513 edition, University and State Library Düsseldorf: [ 4]

literature

• Sandro Boldrini : Fedro e Perotti. Ricerche di storia della tradizione (= Pubblicazioni dell'Università di Urbino, Serie di linguistica, letteratura, arte , volume 11). Università degli Studi, Urbino 1988, ISBN 88-392-0058-4
• Sandro Boldrini: Il codice di Fedro usato da Niccolo Perotti . In: Res Publica Litterarum 12, 1989, pp. 9-16
• Martine Furno: Le Cornu copiae de Niccolò Perotti. Culture et méthode d'un humaniste qui aimait les mots (= Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance , 294). Droz, Geneva 1995, ISBN 2-600-00100-X
• Giovanni Mercati: Per la cronologia della vita e degli scritti di Niccolò Perotti, arcivescovo di Siponto . Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome 1925
• Sesti Prete: Osservazioni e note sull'umanista Niccolò Perotti cittadino veneziano (= Quaderni del Centro tedesco di studi veneziani , 20). Centro tedesco di studi veneziani , Venice 1981
• Fabio Stock: Studi sul Cornu copiae di Niccolò Perotti (= Testi e studi di cultura classica , 24). Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2002, ISBN 88-467-0674-9

Web links

• Verification of Latin works on the Internet in the Analytic Bibliography of Online Neo-Latin Texts
• Works by Niccolò Perotti in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
• Johann Ramminger: "The time-honored Bologna". On the intention and models of Perotti's “De origine urbis Bononiae”. In: Studi Umanistici Piceni 23 (2003), pp. 59–74 ( [5] Electronic preprint, PDF)