Fabrini, Giovanni

Born in 1516 in Figline Valdarno , son of Bernardo di Giuliano and Bartolomea di Alessandro Altroviti. The main source of biographical information about Fabrini is his correspondence, as well as fragmentary indirect information in his books. It is known about the existence of his sister Elizabeth and three brothers: Niccolo, who took priesthood, Francesco, the father of two sons - Barone and Raffaello, whom their uncle Niccolo left a legacy of part of his property, and Giuliano, who did not leave offspring. In his youth, Fabrini moved to Florence , where he began to study literature under the guidance of the humanists Lorenzo Amadei and Gaspara Mariscotti da Marradi. The Florentine period of life did not last long - presumably after the death of his parents, Fabrini moved to Rome, where his brother Niccolo had already settled by that time. Here in 1544 he published his first work: “Interpretation of the Volgar and Latin through the Tuscan dialect” (Della interpretazione della lingua volgare e latina per via della Toschana) in three books, dedicated to the Archbishop of Milan Cardinal . The first of these books spoke about the meaning of the words on the Volgar that are used in the nominative case in Latin, the second about the meaning of the words used in Latin in the genitive , and the third about the meaning of the words in Latin in the dative case . In connection with the publication of this work, he was accused of borrowing the research method from his teachers Amadeus and Mariscotti, but refuted these allegations in letters addressed to both scientists, which he published in a new edition of 1548 ^[1] .

In 1545, published in Venice a translation from Latin by the language of labor “De institutione reipublicae”. In 1546 he returned to Florence and continued the translation of Patricia's treatise “De regno”, which he published in Venice in 1547 under the title Il sacro regno del gran 'Patritio de' l vero reggimento e de la vera felicità del principe e beatitudine humana ”in nine books (in 1559 a new, revised edition was published). He was again accused of plagiarism - he was suspected of using the research of a certain Dominican monk whose identity has not been established with certainty.

In 1547, he finally settled in Venice, where by then he was already well-known. According to an 18th-century scholar, , Fabrini received the title of professor of eloquence from the Senate of Venice, which he retained for about thirty years - until 1577.

Wrote: “Teorica della lingua” (Venice, 1566 ), comments on Terence ( 1548 ), Horace ( 1565 ), Virgil ( 1597 ), etc.

• Fabrini // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

• Giovanni Fabrini (Italian) . Online Books Library. Date of treatment August 18, 2016.