Orazio Toscanella
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orazio Toscanella (1510-1580) was an Italian philologist, translator of Latin classics into Italian, active during the Renaissance mainly in the city of Venice.
He was born in Toscanella and died in Venice. He was the author of grammar treatises, and a Latin-Italian dictionary. He was a member of the Accademia dei Pastori Fratteggiani of Fratta Polesine.[1] This was a literary society, or salon, founded in 1555 by the patron Lucrezia Gonzaga and meeting in the Palazzo Manfrone. Among its members was Lodovico Domenichi and Girolamo Ruscelli.
He was generally indigent during his life, mainly supporting himself as a tutor in the classics.[2]
