Luca Pacioli: Letters from Venice

Paola Magnaghi-Delfino () and Tullia Norando ()
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Paola Magnaghi-Delfino: Politecnico di Milano, Laboratorio FDS, Dipartimento di Matematica
Tullia Norando: Politecnico di Milano, Laboratorio FDS, Dipartimento di Matematica

A chapter in Imagine Math 6, 2018, pp 281-290 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 1508, Luca Pacioli was the most famous Italian mathematician and Venice was at the height of his power. Born in Borgo San Sepolcro, Luca always had a special relationship with Venice. In 1464–1470, he entered the service of the merchant Antonio Rompiasi and completed his mathematical studies at the Scuola di Rialto. After becoming Franciscan friar, he began a life of travelling, staying at the major Italian Courts, but he returned several times to Venice where he published his principal books: Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni e Proportionalità, De Divina Proportione and Euclid’s Fifteen Books (Morison, Fra Luca de Pacioli of Borgo S. Sepolcro, The Grolier Club, New York, 1933). In 1508, he made the inaugural lesson of the Accademia di Rialto. He focused on Elements’ Book V in which Euclid develops the theory of proportions, on which Pacioli founded his mathematical and philosophical program. Among all applications, cited in De Divina Proportione, we have interested in the woodcuts in which Luca builds his Alphabeto Dignissimo Antiquo. We analyse the characters’ constructive principles and expose our opinion about the attribution issues.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93949-0_22

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