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active 15th century Joannes Sulpitius Verulanus
A Renaissance teacher and humanist from Veroli, he helped shape how Latin was taught and written in the late 1400s. He is especially remembered for works on grammar and letter-writing that kept circulating well after his lifetime.
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Des bonnes moeurs et honnestes contenances que doit garder un jeune homme, tant à table qu'ailleurs, avec autres notables enseignemens Oeuvre composé premierement en latin par M. Jean Sulpice de Saint-Alban, dit Verulan. Et nouvellement tourné & traduit en rime françoise par paraphrase par M. Pierre Broë practicien de Tournon sur le Rhosne
by active 15th century Joannes Sulpitius Verulanus
About the author
Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli, also known in Latin as Joannes or Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus, was an Italian Renaissance humanist, grammarian, and rhetorician active in the second half of the fifteenth century. Sources identify him with Veroli and describe him as a scholar connected with the world of classical learning that flourished in central Italy.
He taught Latin and eloquence, with records linking him to Perugia, the court of Urbino, and Rome. He became known for works on grammar and for De componendis et ornandis epistolis, a guide to writing and polishing letters, which shows how closely Renaissance education tied style, rhetoric, and everyday learned communication together.
Modern reference works differ on some biographical details, including his exact birth and death dates, so it is safest to describe him as active in the late 1400s. What is clear is that his textbooks and scholarly editions were widely used, and that he was part of the humanist effort to recover, teach, and refine classical Latin for a new age.