Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani (1617 – 29 October 1661) was an Italian classical scholar, translator, and canonist.
Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani | |
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 Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani | |
| Born | 1617 |
| Died | 29 October 1661 (aged 43–44) |
| Resting place | Santa Maria sopra Minerva |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Classical scholar, university teacher, canon lawyer |
| Parent(s) | Giasone Vizzani and Plautilla Vizzani (née Ghiselli) |
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| Discipline | Ancient Greek Scholar, jurist |
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| Notable students | Annibale Ranuzzi |
Biography
editCarlo Emmanuele Vizzani was born in Bologna in 1617. He obtained his doctorate in philosophy and jurisprudence from the University of Bologna in 1634. He was a professor of logic at the University of Padua, but his knowledge in the classics drew him to Rome, where he occupied a variety of positions: consistorial lawyer, secretary of the Roman Inquisition, Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura, and canon of St. Peter. In 1646 he published a critical edition of Ocellus Lucanus' De universi natura with his own Latin translation.[1] This important work was reissued by Joan Blaeu in 1661.[2] In 1658 Vizzani became rector of the Sapienza University of Rome. He died in 1661 and was buried in the Dominican church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. His funeral monument was designed and sculpted by Domenico Guidi.[3][4] Vizzani was a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti of Venice and the Accademia dei Gelati of Bologna.
Works
edit- Epistola græco-latina super raptum Helenæ a Guidone Rheno depictum. Bononiae, typ. Ferronii, 1633.
- Pseudo-Ocellus Lucanus (1646). Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani (ed.). Περὶ τῆς τοῦ παντὸς φύσεως/De Universi natura (in Latin and Greek). Bologna: ex typographia Ferroniana.
- De mandatis principum, seu de officio eorum, qui in provincias cum imperio mittuntur. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu. 1656.
References
edit- ^ Scifoni, Felice (1849). Dizionario biografico universale. Vol. 5. Florence: David Passigli. p. 645.
- ^ De Universi Natura. Textum e Græco in Latinum transtulit, collatisque multis exemplaribus etiam M. SS. emendavit, Paraphrasi, & Commentario illustravit Carolus Emmanuel Vizzanius. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu. 1661.
- ^ Bershad, David (2003). "GUIDI, Domenico". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 61: Guglielmo Gonzaga–Jacobini (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- ^ Bacchi, Andrea, ed. (1996). Scultura del '600 a Roma. Longanesi. p. 811. ISBN 9788830413214.
Bibliography
edit- «Carlo Emanuel Vizzani Bolognese». In : Le glorie de gli Incogniti: o vero, Gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de' signori Incogniti di Venetia, In Venetia : appresso Francesco Valuasense stampator dell'Accademia, 1647, pp. 88–91 (on-line).
- «Carlo Emanuelle Vizzani». In : Memorie imprese, e ritratti de' signori Accademici Gelati di Bologna, In Bologna : per li Manolessi, 1672, pp. 98–102 (on-line).