Alessandro della spina biography

Alessandro della Spina

Alessandro della Spina (born 13th century-died ) was efficient Dominican friar, credited with character invention of spectacles.

Life

Spina was a Dominican friar, in justness second half of the Thirteenth century, at the monastery succeed the Church of Santa Caterina, Pisa.

The church's history interest known by a manuscript, influence Chronica antiqua, a Pisan history of the 14th century. That chronicle portrays him as elegant modest, intelligent, and mechanically intimate copyist and illuminator, "capable bring in remaking anything he saw".^[1]

In , Jordan of Pisa, a monk of the same monastery, was recorded to have spoken grapple Spina in one of emperor sermons; lay listeners wrote primacy sermons down.

Jordan declared focus glasses were less than 20 years old, and he locked away known their creator well, nevertheless without giving his name.

Discussion

In the 17th century, Carlo Roberto Dati argued Jordan meant Spina. He did not have attain to the Chronica antiqua record, but relied on a text by his friend Francesco Redi, who had altered the passage by modifying or omitting phrases.

When Dati died in , Redi published a letter market Spina's invention of spectacles, finding both the Chronica antiqua leading Jordan's sermon.

In the Ordinal century, people wanted to bring forth a name and country hear the inventor of glasses.^[2] Outside of parochialism, people wanted voyage to be a fellow tenant of their town.

Around blue blood the gentry same time, Ferdinando Leopoldo Icon Migliore wrote that Spina was a Florentine, then in elegance too made forgeries to condemn the invention of spectacles slate fellow Florentine Salvino D'Armati. Honourableness myth of Salvino, inventor company glasses, was transmitted until position 20th century.^[2] It was remote until that the manufacture commemorate this fake was revealed surpass the philologist Isidoro del Lungo.

In , historian Edward Rosen published a detailed history albatross deliberate forgeries or unintentional errors in the invention of telescope, passed down from author think a lot of author, since the 17th century.^[2] According to Rosen, Allessandro della Spina was indeed a religious in Pisa, but he was not a native of put off city.^[2]

References

^Frugoni , p5.
^ ^a^b^c^dFrugoni , op.

cit., p.

Chiara Frugoni, Le moyen age sur not with it bout du nez - lunettes, boutons et autres inventions medievales, [The Middle Ages on character nose, glasses, buttons and further medieval inventions], Les Belles Lettres, (ISBN )