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Giovanni da Serravalle, also known as Giovanni de Bertoldi (c. 1350 – 1445), was a Sammarinese Franciscan and humanist, who became bishop of Fermo and bishop of Fano (1417–1445). He is now best known for his commentary on Dante.

Life

Giovanni de Bertoldi was ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor.

In 1385 he was lector at the studium of St. Croce. From 1387 to 1390 he taught moral philosophy at the University of Pavia. He taught arts at the University of Perugia for a year from 1400. He was appointed bishop of Fermo by Pope Gregory XII, around 1410. On 15 Dec 1417, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Martin V as Bishop of Fano. He served as Bishop of Fano until he died there on 15 Feb 1445.

While bishop, he was the Principal Co-Consecrator Jean Heysterbach, Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (1436).

Works

During the Council of Constance he translated the Divine Comedy into Latin. He did this largely for the benefit of Nicholas Bubwith and Robert Hallam, English bishops attending the council; he was encouraged by Amedeo Saluzzo attending the council, who was a cardinal of the Avignon obedience. Serraville was also a source for stories concerning the young Dante's visits to Paris and Oxford. He lectured at Constance on Dante too, producing later a written commentary. It was strongly influenced by Benvenuto da Imola and Stefano Talice da Ricaldone; and Serravalle revised Benvenuto's glosses, to support the council's reforming programme.

Notes

1. ^ "Bishop Giovanni de Bertoldi, O.F.M." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
2. "Franaut page". Archived from the original on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
3. p. 131 note 50; Google Books.
4. Luca Carlo Rossi, Le strade di Ercole: itinerari umanistici e altri percorsi : Seminario internazionale per i centenari di Coluccio Salutati e Lorenzo Valla : Bergamo, 25-26 ottobre 2007 (2010), p. 75; Google Books.
5. (in Italian) Lista dei maestri Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
6. (in Italian) treccani.it biography
7. Walter Ullmann, Medieval Foundations of Renaissance Humanism (1977), pp. 114–5.
8. Wendy Scase, David Lawton, Rita Copeland (editors), New Medieval Literatures (2000), p. 13; Google Books.
9. Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Volume 1 (1819), p. v; Google Books.
10. Miranda entry for Saluzzo
11. Werner Paul Friederich, Dante's Fame Abroad, 1350-1850: the influence of Dante Alighieri on the poets and scholars of Spain, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States (1950), p. 342; Google Books.
12. Steven Botterill, Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia (2005), pp. 137–8; Google Books.
13. Richard Lansing (editor), The Dante Encyclopedia (2000), p. 208.

External links and additional sources

• Serravalle's Latin translation of and commentary on the Commedia
• Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved January 4, 2019. (for Chronology of Bishops)
• Chow, Gabriel. "Diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola". GCatholic.org. Retrieved January 4, 2019. (for Chronology of Bishops)

• 1350 births
• 1445 deaths
• 15th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
• Bishops appointed by Pope Martin V
• Italian Franciscans
• Bishops in le Marche
• Italian Renaissance humanists