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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies From tsettle Sat Sep 1 05:49:13 2001 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: dante - tolomeo Bcc: [log in to unmask] Dear Italian Studies, I am hoping that some expert in the 15th c. will be able to help me. As many will know, in 1587/88 Galileo gave two lectures to the Acc. Fiorentina on the size, shape, etc. of the Inferno of Dante. What I have been doing in the last several months is looking into the background of those two lectures, and I have lodged up against a problem. In 1506 Girolamo Benivieni "Dialogo di Antonio Manetti ... circa al sito, forma ... dello Inferno ...". There he put into the mouth of Manetti some recommendations about what the reader ought to know in order to understand the issues and Manetti's own conclusions on the subject. The reader ought to have "qualche poco di cognizione di geometria ... arimetrica ... un poco di astrologia, almeno avere vista la sfera ... di cosmografia il Mantellino di Tolomeo e la Carta da navicare ...". -- It's the Mantellino di Tolemeo that I am stuck on. What is he referring to? I can think of several possibilities, including the one to the effect that un Mantellino or Mantellius was an editor or publisher of one of Ptolemy's works, possibly on geography. But I have never seen the name before this, and it does not eeem to appear in any of the standard Ptolemy bibliographies. Would someone here have seen it somewhere? -- In Manetti or in Landino or in any other of the Florentine eruditi of the late 15th century? Many thanks for any help. Tom Settle ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html