Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro

Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro
Born1300 (1300)
Died31 March 1342(1342-03-31) (aged 41–42)
Other namesRoberti of Roberti, Dennis
OccupationPriest
Known forPetrarch's confessor

Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro OESA (Roberti of Roberti, Dennis) (c. 1300 – 31 March 1342) was an Augustinian friar 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.

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