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Cosimo Bartoli (20 Dec 1503 - 25 Oct 1572)
Cosimo Bartoli
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Cosimo Bartoli |
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Florence |
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Italian |
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20 Dec 1503 |
| Death: |
25 Oct 1572 |
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diplomat and writer |
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Biography
| He attended the school of the peripatetic philosopher Francesco Verini in Florence and later entered the Church. In 1530 he went to Rome where he studied architecture and drawing as well as mathematics, music and humanistic disciplines. Bartoli was a man of great culture and wide interests. His particular interest in promoting Italian as a language of technical discourse found expression in translations of and commentaries on a number of important Latin texts, including Leon Battista Albertis De re aedificatoria. This work was well received, despite the frequent liberties taken by Bartoli in his interpretation of the original and his perpetuation of textual errors introduced by Latin copyists. In 1568 he also published an Italian-language collection of other works by Alberti, including the De statua and the De pictura.In 1560 Bartoli became secretary to Cardinal Giovanni de Medici and followed him to Rome, remaining there until the spring of 1562 when Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany appointed him as his personal agent in Venice. During his ten years there Bartoli moved in the most advanced circles of the art world, procuring valuable objectsa‚¯gems in particular but also sculpture and paintings, including work by Jacopo Sansovino and Titiana‚¯for the Medici collection.Bartolis vast correspondence, both official and privatea‚¯especially the rich exchange of letters with his friend Giorgio Vasaria‚¯is a valuable source of information and insight for art historians. |
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