Encyclopaedia biographical entry – including original research material – on Giovanni Battista Vecchietti (1552-1619), a traveller and eclectic orientalist, papal envoy to Egypt and Persia, collaborator for the Medici Press, directed by Giovanni Battista Raimondi, a follower of Bernardino Telesio’s philosophy, and a pioneer in the field of Judeo-Persian studies.
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.
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