Giovan Battista Alberti

Giovan Battista Alberti (1930 – 28 October 2014) was an Italian classical scholar, professor at the University of Florence.

A student of Vittorio Bartoletti and Giorgio Pasquali,^[1] Alberti taught Greek Palaeography and Classical Philology at the University of Florence.^[2] His main interest was in textual criticism of Greek classics and in their manuscript transmission, with special interest for Apollonius of Rhodes, Herodotus and Thucydides. His monographs include a handbook on textual criticism of Greek and Latin classics, with theoretical remarks,^[3] and a complete critical edition of Thucydides.^[4] He was thesis advisor to Rosario Pintaudi.^[2]

Alberti died on 28 October 2014.^[2]