Adriano Politi (1542 – 15 January 1625) was an Italian translator, philologist and classical scholar.
[2] He chose the ecclesiastical career, and was attached as secretary to the cardinals Capizucchi, Serbelloni, Cornaro and Aldobrandini.
[4] Published in 1618 by Giunti and Ciotti, this new edition of Politi's translation was hugely successful despite being a complex and expensive work.
When he reprinted it just two years later the printer Giunti noted that in only a few months it had sold 1,200 copies but demand outstripped the supply.
[6] A defender of the Sienese dialect, he followed Claudio Tolomei's lead in rejecting Florentine exclusivity.