This paper joins the ongoing research area on Andrea Mantegna’s linguistic use. It presents the artist’s correspondence and its content, and it focuses on the palaeographic analysis of the different types of writing detected, as well as on their corresponding paragraphemic and punctuation systems. Such an analysis, along with some other “external” considerations, allows to [...]

The goal of this paper is to enhance our understanding of the language used by Michelangelo in his letters. All earlier scholars have insisted that his epistolary style was an excellent example of sixteenth-century Florentine writing and although the claims supporting this argument are well founded, more studies are needed. In this paper, I will [...]

È passato ormai mezzo millennio da quando Giovan Francesco Fortunio, giurista friulano appassionato di lettere, nonché attento filologo e lettore dei classici latini e volgari, pubblicò, a fine estate 1516 e a proprie spese, il primo esemplare di un genere librario del tutto nuovo, quello delle grammatiche del volgare. Naturalmente, Fortunio non poteva essere consapevole [...]