Egidio Forcellini

Egidio Forcellini
Egidio Forcellini
Born	26 August 1688; Treviso, Italy
Died	5 April 1768 (aged 79); Padua, Veneto, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Philologist
Notable work	Latin 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.^[1] 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.^[1]

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.^[1]

Bibliography

Totius Latinitatis lexicon, consilio et cura Jacobi Facciolati opera et studio Aegidii Forcellini, lucubratum. Patavii: typis Seminarii, 4 voll., 1771
Totius Latinitatis lexicon, consilio et cura Jacobi Facciolati opera et studio Aegidii Forcellini lucubratum; in hac tertia editione auctum et emendatum a Josepho Furlanetto. Patavii: typis Seminarii, 4 voll., 1827-1831
Totius latinitatis lexicon, opera et studio Aegidii Forcellini lucubratum; et in hac editione post tertiam auctam et emendatam a Josepho Furlanetto alumno seminarii patavini novo ordine digestum amplissime auctum atque emendatum cura et studio Vincentii De Vit. Prati: Typis Aldinianis, 1858-1879
Lexicon totius latinitatis J. Facciolati, Aeg. Forcellini et J. Furlanetti seminarii patavini alumnorum cura, opera et studio lucubratum nunc demum juxta opera R. Klotz, G. Freund, L. Doderlein aliorumque recentiorum auctius, emendatius melioremque in formam redactum curante doct. Francisco Corradini ejusdem seminarii alumno. Patavii: Typis Seminarii, 1896

References

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