“Et questo bene et perfettamente parlare quanto all’homo sia possibile...”: filosofia naturale del linguaggio di Giovanni Battista Raimondi
As director of the Typographia Medicea, based in Rome (1584-1614), Giovanni Battista Raimondi (c. 1536-1614) developed his linguistic knowledge and projects in a period of expanding geographical and linguistic horizons, specifically in the Papal States, but also more broadly in Europe. In a series of manuscript notes, Raimondi evaluates and elucidates different languages’ qualities of excellence, especially those of Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian.