Dionigi Di Matteo Nigetti
Dionigi is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (c. 1300 – 1342), Augustinian monk *Dionigi Bussola (1615–1687), Italian sculptor *Dionigi Donnini (1681–1743), Italian painter *Dionigi Galletto (1932–2011), Italian mathematician *Dionigi da Palacenza Carli, 17th-century Capuchin missionary *Dionigi Tettamanzi (1934–2017), Italian cardinal *Dionigi Valesi (c.1730–c.1780), Italian printmaker *Davide Dionigi (born 1974), Italian footballer and manager {{given name, type=both Italian-language surnames Italian masculine given names ...
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Dionigi Di Borgo San Sepolcro
Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro OESA (Roberti of Roberti, Dennis) ( 1300 – 31 March 1342) was an Augustinian monk who was at one time Petrarch's confessor, and who taught Boccaccio at the beginning of his education in the humanities. He was Bishop of Monopoli in Apulia. He was surnamed, not uncommonly for the trecento, for the town in which he was born, now Sansepolcro in Tuscany. His family name was de' Roberti, which no longer exists. Dionigi is the Italian form of Dennis, Latin Dionysius. Life Dionigi joined the Order of Hermits at the Augustinian monastery in Borgo San Sepolcro at an early age. The convent had been founded in 1281 and was located in the valley of Spoleto. He was sent to study theology at the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated ''baccalaureus sententiarius'' during the academic year 1317-18. About 1324 he obtained a doctorate in theology and taught at the Sorbonne through 1328. While in Paris, he practised astrology, and predicted the unexpected death of Cas ...
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