Giovanni Malpaghini (1346 â 1417) was an Italian grammarian and rhetorician.
He was born in 1346 in Ravenna, Italy and died in 1417 in Italy.
In 1363, he arrived in Venice to become a student of Donato Albanzani, from whom he learned rhetoric and grammar.
He began his career very young as copyist for Petrarch, helping him to transcribe and order his letters and the Canzoniere.
He copied and produced several versions of ancient Latin manuscripts: