Giovanni Malpaghini (1346 – 1417) was an Italian grammarian and rhetorician.
Biography
He was born in 1346 in Ravenna, Italy and died in 1417 in Italy.
Education In 1363, he arrived in Venice to become a student of Donato Albanzani, from whom he learned rhetoric and grammar.
Career He began his career very young as copyist for Petrarch, helping him to transcribe and order his letters and the Canzoniere.
Bibliography
He copied and produced several versions of ancient Latin manuscripts:
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta Cicero's Tusculanae
See also
Petrarch Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Conversini
References
External links
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature Giovanni Malpaghini MALPAGHINI, Giovanni - Enciclopedia Il Mondo di Petrarca