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Ambrogio calepi (Castles Calepio, 1435 about [first] – Bergamo, 1511) was an Italian humanist and Latinist, known for the Latinum dictionary , a monumental work of a lexicographic and encyclopedic nature on the Latin language.

Ambrogio Calepio (known as Calepino), whose name was Giacomo (but universally known as Ambrogio), he was a natural son of Count Trussardo of Calepio and Caterina De Bucellenis [2] Of rich and noble family of Bergamo on a date which, in the absence of certain documents, is placed between 1435 and 1440, in the vicinity of San Michele alla Pozzo Bianco. Giacomo had two brothers: Marco, a natural son, and Nicolino to whom the goods of the family passed by. [3] Count Trussardo guaranteed a good level education to his son leaving him a heritage of two thousand lire bound to the completion of his twenty -five years, such as the one hundred and fifty gold shields left in storage at the Congregation of Mercy Maggiore left him by Giovanni Di Marco da Rudiano, always upon reaching the twenty -fifth birthday [4] , who, following the tradition for the cadets of the noble families, in 1458 entered the convent of the Order of the Hermitans of Sant’Agostino, where he took the name of Ambrogio. He lived the period of the Catholic reform with the reforms of orders by inserting himself in promoting the reform.

After carrying out the novitiate in numerous monasteries of Lombard City (Milan, Cremona, Brescia and Mantua), he returned to his hometown where he had the opportunity to refine his knowledge, so much so that he began to devote himself to the preparation of a vocabulary.

The first edition of the Latinum dictionary It was published in 1502 by the Emilian typographer Dionigi Bertocchi, but was considered incomplete due to omissions and inappropriate additions performed by the printer itself.
The Calepio immediately started work to improve and complete his work, quickly creating a second edition.

In the first edition the dictionary was Monolingue in Latin and contained many quotes. The second edition, published in 1509, was instead in four languages: Jewish, Greek, Latin and Italian.
Calepio continued his lexicographic work but, also because of the blindness, he was unable to see the final result of his labors.

He died in his convent in 1511 and his work was completed by his confreres. The results were seen in 1520, when Bergamo Bernardino Benaglio printed the twenty -fourth edition of the vocabulary, considered the definitive one. The work became famous throughout Europe as “Calepino”, in honor of its author, and its wide notoriety was also due to the fact that, subsequently, it assumed a polyglot character, with versions in numerous modern languages. Two hundred -andmedic were the rebuilds printed from 1502 to 1779, prints that led the work to undergo numerous changes.

In the Italian language the word “Calepino” has become Antonomasico term for “vocabulary”, also used in playful contexts [5] [6] .

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  1. ^ Gigliola money Rondinini, Tullio De Mauro, Calepio, Ambrogio, called the Calepino , Biographical Dictionary of Italians – Volume 16 (1973)
  2. ^ Ambrogio da Calepio and his Caelepinus . are larivistadibergamo.it , Rivista69. URL consulted on November 18, 2018 .
  3. ^ Aa.VV., Society, culture, places at the time of Ambrogio di Calepio , Bergamo, Edizioni dell’Atero, 2005, p. 13.
  4. ^ Gianmario Petrò, The transformations of the church and the convent of S. Agostino between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , Bergamo, University of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Bergamo – Studi, 2005, p. 119-119.
  5. ^ Calepino , Treccani Vocabulary online , Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia
  6. ^ Calepino , Synonyms and antonyms , Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani
  • Louis Mayeul Chaudon, Calepino , in New historical dictionary … , Holiday nipnta michele michelli, 1791, PP. Tomo v, p. 154-6.
  • Ambrogio Calepino’s dictionary with a short vulgar Latin in the Latin language (1552) in Lucio Minerbi
  • Ambrogio Calepio called Calepino and his dictionary , edited by Giulio Orazio Bravi, Maria Giuseppina Ceresoli and Francesco Lo Monaco, Bergamo (2002)
  • A great Bergamo: Ambrogio Calepino by Francesco Speranza (1968)
  • Ambrogio da Calepio, the Calepino Annalisa Strada, Gianluigi Spini
  • Antonio Tiraboschi, News around the monastery and the church of S. Agostino; The convent of S. Agostino and Ambrogio da Calepio in Unpublished writings , Bergamo, Cattaneo 1969, pp. 23-53.
  • Gigliola money Rondinini, Tullio De Mauro, Calepio, Ambrogio, called the Calepino , Biographical Dictionary of Italians – Volume 16 (1973), Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani.
  • Francesco Foffano, Calepino, Ambrogio , Italian Encyclopedia (1930), Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani.
  • Aa.VV., Society, culture, places at the time of Ambrogio di Calepio , Bergamo, Edizioni dell’Atero, 2005.

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