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SACOPO See also:FACCIOLATI (1682-1769)
, See also:Italian philologist, was See also:born at Torriglia, in the See also:province of See also:Padua, in 1682
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He owed his See also:admission to the See also:seminary of Padua to See also:Cardinal Barberigo, who had formed a high See also:opinion of the boy's talents
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As See also:professor of See also:logic, and See also:regent of the See also:schools, See also:Facciolati was the See also:ornament of the Paduan university during a See also:period of See also:forty-five years
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He published improved See also:editions of several philological See also:works, such as the See also:Thesaurus Ciceronianus of Nizolius, and the polyglot vocabulary known under the name of See also:Calepino
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The latter See also:work, in which he was assisted by his See also:pupil Egidio See also:Forcellini, he completed in four years—1715 to 1719
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It was written in seven See also:languages, and suggested to the editor the See also:idea of his See also:opus magnum, the Totius Latinitatis See also:Lexicon, which was ultimately published at Cardinal Priole's expense, 4 vols. fol., Padua, 1771 (revised ed. by de Vit, 1858-1887)
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In the compilation of this work the See also:chief See also:burden seems to have been See also:borne by Facciolati's pupil Forcellini, to whom, however, the lexicographer allows a very scanty measure of See also:justice
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Perhaps the best testimony to the learning and See also:industry of the compiler is the well-known observation that the whole See also:body of Latinity, if it were to perish, might be restored from this lexicon
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Facciolati's mastery of Latin See also:style, as displayed in his epistles, has been very much admired for its purity and See also:grace
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In or about 1739 Facciolati undertook the continuation of Papadopoli's See also:history of the university of Padua, carrying it en to his own See also:day
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Facciolati was known over all See also:Europe as one of the most enlightened and zealous teachers of the See also:time; and among the many flattering invitations which he received, but always declined, was cne it-cm the See also: His history of the university was published in 1757, under the name See also:Fasti Gymnasii Falavini . In 18o8 a See also:volume containing nine of his Epistles, never before published, was issued at Padua . See J . E . See also:Sandys, Hist . Class . Schoh ii . (19(38) . |
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