Giovan Battista Alberti

Giovan Battista Alberti (1930 – 28 October 2014) was an Italian classical scholar, professor at the University of Florence.

A student of Vittorio Bartoletti and Giorgio Pasquali, Alberti taught Greek Palaeography and Classical Philology at the University of Florence. His main interest was in textual criticism of Greek classics and in their manuscript transmission, with special interest for Apollonius of Rhodes, Herodotus and Thucydides. His monographs include a handbook on textual criticism of Greek and Latin classics, with theoretical remarks, and a complete critical edition of Thucydides. He was thesis advisor to Rosario Pintaudi.

Alberti died on 28 October 2014.

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