Giovanni Francesco Fortunio
Italian grammarian, jurist and humanist
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Biography
He is especially remembered for having printed in 1516, the first ever Italian grammar book with the title Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua. It contains a morphological and orthographical analysis of the Tuscan vernacular based upon works by Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni Boccaccio.[2]
He was also an important politician and vicarian.
Bibliography
- A. Benedetti, Giovanni Francesco Fortunio umanista e primo grammatico della lingua italiana, Pordenone, s.d.
