Giovanni da Serravalle

Life

Giovanni de Bertoldi was ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor.

In 1385 he was lector at the studium of St. Croce. From 1387 to 1390 he taught moral philosophy at the University of Pavia. He taught arts at the University of Perugia for a year from 1400. He was appointed bishop of Fermo by Pope Gregory XII, around 1410. On 15 Dec 1417, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Martin V as Bishop of Fano.

While bishop, he was the Principal Co-Consecrator Jean Heysterbach, Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (1436).

Works

During the Council of Constance he translated the Divine Comedy into Latin. He did this largely for the benefit of Nicholas Bubwith and Robert Hallam, English bishops attending the council; he was encouraged by Amedeo Saluzzo attending the council, who was a cardinal of the Avignon obedience. Serraville was also a source for stories concerning the young Dante's visits to Paris and Oxford. He lectured at Constance on Dante too, producing later a written commentary. It was strongly influenced by Benvenuto da Imola and Stefano Talice da Ricaldone; and Serravalle revised Benvenuto's glosses, to support the council's reforming programme.

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References

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9. [[Henry Francis Cary]] (translator), ''The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise'', Volume 1 (1819), p. v; [https://books.google.com/books?id=ryAwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5 Google Books].
10. [https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1383a.htm#Saluzzo Miranda entry for Saluzzo]
11. Werner Paul Friederich, ''Dante's Fame Abroad, 1350-1850: the influence of Dante Alighieri on the poets and scholars of Spain, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States'' (1950), p. 342; [https://books.google.com/books?id=9o7cTQTimNUC&pg=PA342 Google Books].
12. Steven Botterill, ''Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia'' (2005), pp. 137–8; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2MCzEWr0OVsC&pg=PA137 Google Books].
13. Richard Lansing (editor), ''The Dante Encyclopedia'' (2000), p. 208.