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EGIDIO FORCELLINI

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Latin lexicographer, b. at Fener, near Treviso, Italy, 26 Aug., 1688; d. at
Padua, 4 April, 1768. His parents were poor, so that he was deprived of the
opportunities of an early education, and he was of mature age when in 1704 he
entered the seminary at Padua. There his ability and industry soon attracted the
attention of his teacher, Facciolati, who secured his assistance in his
lexicographical work. Forcellini collaborated with his master in revising the
so-called "Calepinus", the Latin dictionary, in seven languages, of the monk
Ambrosius Calepinus. While engaged in this work, Forcellini is said to have
conceived the idea of an entirely new Latin lexicon, the most comprehensive ever
compiled. Towards the end of 1718, under the direction of Facciolati, he began
the laborious task of reading through the entire body of Latin literature as
well as the whole collection of inscriptions. His labours were interrupted in
1724, when he was called to Ceneda, where he became professor of rhetoric and
director of the seminary. He resumed his work on the lexicon on his recall to
Padua in 1731. It was not until three years after Forcellini's death that this
great lexicon, on which he had spent nearly forty years of untiring industry,
and which is the basis of all the Latin lexicons now in use, was published at
Padua in four folio volumes under the title, "Totius Latinitatis Lexicon". In it
are given both the Italian and the Greek equivalents of every word, together
with copious citations from the literature. There is an English edition by
Bailey in two volumes (London, 1828). The latest complete edition is that of De
Vit (Prato, 1858-87). (See LATIN LITERATURE.)


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APA citation. Burke, E. (1909). Egidio Forcellini. In The Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134a.htm

MLA citation. Burke, Edmund. "Egidio Forcellini." The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06134a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Gerald M. Knight.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. September 1, 1909. Remy Lafort,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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