Egidio Forcellini

Egidio Forcellini
Born(1688-08-26)26 August 1688
Treviso, Italy
Died5 April 1768(1768-04-05) (aged 79)
Padua, Veneto, Italy
NationalityItalian
OccupationPhilologist
Notable workLatin Lexicon

Egidio Forcellini (26 August 1688 – 5 April 1768) was an Italian philologist.

Biography

Forcellini was born at Fener in the district of Treviso and belonged to a very poor family. He went to the seminary at Padua in 1704, studied under Facciolati, and in due course attained the priesthood. From 1724 to 1730 he held the office of rector of the seminary at Ceneda, and from 1731 to 1765 that of father confessor in the seminary of Padua. The remaining years of his life were mainly spent in his native village.

He died in Padua in 1768 before the completion of the great work on which he had long co-operated with Facciolati. This was the vast Latin Lexicon, which formed the basis of all similar works subsequently published until the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. He was engaged with his Herculean task for nearly thirty-five years, and the transcription of the manuscript by Luigi Violato occupied eight years more.

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  1. ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Forcellini, Egidio". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 639–640.

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