Niccolò Tartaglia restorer of Archimedes' work

NiccolòTartaglia (1499-1557) was one of the most representative mathematician of the Italian Renaissance, a sort of `bridge' between the abacus culture (to which he belonged) and the mathematical humanism focused on the restoration of Classics.After an overviewing of Tartaglia's reception of the Archimedean tradition, the talk will be mainly focused on the Italian translation of Book I of Archimedes' On the Sphere and the Cylinder