Giovanni Francesco Fortunio
Italian academic
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| Intro | Italian academic | |
| Places | Italy | |
| is | Linguist | |
| Work field | Literature Social science | |
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| Birth | Zadar | |
| Death | 12 January 1517Fano |
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Giovanni Francesco Fortunio (Zara or Pordenone, ca. 1470 – Fano, 1517) was an Italian grammarian, jurist and humanist.
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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 e Giovanni Boccaccio.
He was also an important politician and vicarian.