Piero Vettori

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Pietro Vettori in a 16th-century drawing.

Piero or Pietro Vettori (

philologist and humanist
.

Life

Vettori was born in

moral philosophy, and also catalogued codexes in Florence and Italy
. However his main interest was the study of ancient classics, especially Greek texts.

In 1522 he traveled to Spain with his cousin Paolo Vettori, naval commander of the

San Casciano Val di Pesa
, where he wrote the Trattato delle lodi et della coltivazione de gli ulivi ("Treatise on the praise and the cultivation of olive trees").

In 1538 Duke Cosimo I de' Medici called him to Florence, offering him a position as professor of Greek and Latin in the Studio Fiorentino, where he taught until 1583.

He died in Florence in 1585.

Works

His other works include the Castigationes (commentaries) of

Electra
and others.

His edition of Aeschylus (1557) was the first printed edition to include the whole of the

Henricus Stephanus, who printed it, added an appendix with some further corrections.[1]

He also edited the works of his friend Giovanni della Casa after the latter's death.

In 1553 he published the first 25 books of the Variarum lectionum, followed by another thirteen in 1569 and republished integrally in 1582.

Sources

  • Lo Re, Salvatore (2006). "La crisi della libertà fiorentina: alle origine della formazione politica e intellettuale di Benedetto Varchi e Piero Vettori". Studi e testi del Rinascimento europeo (29)). Rome: Istituto nazionale di studi sul Rinascimento.

References

  1. ^ E. Fraenkel, Aeschylus: Agamemnon, volume 1, pp. 34-35.
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