Antonio Manetti (nonfiction)

Antonio Manetti.

Antonio Manetti (6 July 1423 – 26 May 1497) was an Italian mathematician and architect from Florence. He was also the biographer of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.

Manetti is particularly noted for his investigations into the site, shape and size of Dante's Inferno. Although Manetti never himself published his research regarding the topic, the earliest Renaissance Florentine editors of the poem, Cristoforo Landino and Girolamo Benivieni, reported the results of his researches in their respective editions of the Divine Comedy. Manetti is also famous for his short story, The Fat Woodworker, which recounts a cruel practical joke devised by Brunelleschi.

References

• Max Koch; Ludwig Geiger; W. Wetz; Joseph Collin; Philipp August Becker (1889). Zeitschrift für vergleichende Litteraturgeschichte. A. Haack. p. 254. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
• Antonio Manetti (1991). Robert L. Marton & Valerie Martone (ed.). The Fat Woodworker. Italica Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-934977-23-4. Retrieved 4 August 2015.

External links

• The Gubbio Studiolo and its conservation, volumes 1 & 2, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Antonio Manetti (see index)
• Dante's Hell
• More information about Dante's Divine Comedy by Manetti can be found in the Cornell University: Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection
• Works by or about Antonio Manetti at Internet Archive
• Online books, and library resources in your library and in other libraries by Antonio Manetti

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Mathematician
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Mathematician (nonfiction)
• Mathematics (nonfiction)

External links

• Antonio Manetti @ Wikipedia