BEROALDO, FILIPPO

(the Elder, 1453-1505)

   Humanist lecturer and author, professor of rhetoric at the university of his native city, Bologna, from 1472 to his death. He travelled extensively and during a year in Paris (1476-1477), he made a great impression on his French audiences, an early example of success by a humanist lecturer in the most famous northern university. He edited and commented on many classical authors, and his sample collection of letters was often used by humanist lecturers as a textbook for courses on rhetoric.