Annibale Antonini

Annibale Antonini (* 1702 near Salerno ; † August 1755 in Naples ) was an Italian Romance philologist , translator, grammarian and lexicographer.

life and work

Antonini studied in Naples. He toured Germany, the Netherlands and England. In 1726 he settled in Paris as an Italian teacher. He returned to Naples around 1750.

Antonini published a successful Italian grammar in Paris in 1726 and an Italian dictionary in 1735. The latter consists of a short version of the dictionary of the Accademia della Crusca (including the definitions), to which Antonini has added Latin and French word equivalents. In 1743 he published the French counterpart. It consists of a short version (including definitions) of the Dictionnaire of the Académie française , plus Latin and Italian word equivalents. Antonini compensated for the purist, reduced nomenclature of his dictionaries with a modern structure of the individual article.

Antonini's Italian dictionary was provided by Johann August Lehninger (omitting the Latin) with a translation of the Italian definitions and with German equivalents and was published in Leipzig in 1763.

In the foreword to his Italian dictionary, Antonini formulated a detailed and linguistically sound defense of the Italian language against the French contempt widespread by Dominique Bouhours (Hausmann 1990).

Works

grammar

• Traité de la grammaire italienne dédié à la Reine , Paris 1726
• Italian Grammar à l'usage des dames, avec des dialogues et un traité de la poésie , Paris 1728
• Grammaire Italienne pratique et raisonnée , Paris 1746, 1758, Lyon 1759, 1763
• Hannibal Antonini's thorough and practical Italian grammar, along with an extract from the large Antonine dictionary in Italian, German and French , Dresden 1771

lexicography

• Dictionaire Italien, latin et françois contenant non seulement un abrégé du dictionaire de la Crusca, mais encore tout ce qu'il ya de plus remarquable dans les meilleurs lexicographes, étymologistes et glossaires, qui ont paru en différentes langues. Dizionario italiano, latino e francese in cui si contiene, non solamente un compendio del dizionario della crusca [...]. Compendio del Vocabolario della Crusca colla spiegazione latina e francesa, Paris 1735, 1738, 1743; Lyon 1760, 1770; Venice 1793
• Dictionnaire français, latin, italy , contenant non seulement un abrégé du dictionnaire de l'Académie, mais encore tout ce qu'il ya de plus remarquable dans les meilleurs lexicographes, Paris 1743
• (with Johann August Lehninger ) Nuovo Dizzionario italiano-tedesco, tedesco-italiano . New German-Italian dictionary, Leipzig 1763 (6 editions, last Vienna 1802)

Editorial activity

• Giovanni Della Casa , Prose e rime , Paris 1727
• Giovanni Battista Guarini , Il pastor fido , Paris 1729
• Torquato Tasso , Aminta. Favola boscareccia , Paris 1729, London 1774
• Gian Giorgio Trissino , L'Italia liberata da 'Goti , Paris 1729
• Rime scelte de 'più illustri poeti italiani , Paris 1731
• Torquato Tasso, La Gierusalemme liberata , Paris 1744
• Ludovico Ariosto , Orlando Furioso , Paris 1746, 1768, London 1783

Other works

• Mémorial de Paris et de ses environs à l'usage des voyageurs , Paris 1732, 1749
• Recueil de lettres françoises et italiennes de bienséance et marchandes pour ceux qui souhaitent d'apprendre à bien écrire en Italy, Basel 1761

Translations

• Paul Rolli, Examen de l'essai de M. de Voltaire sur la Poésie épique , Paris 1728 (from the English by Paolo Antonio Rolli )
• Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle , Ragionamento sù la pluralità de 'mondi , Paris 1748
• Andrew Michael Ramsay , Viaggi di Ciro , Naples 1753

literature

• Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 3, 1961 sv (Anna Buiatti)
• Franz Josef Hausmann , Dictionary History and Historiography of Linguistics, in: Werner Hüllen (Ed.), Understanding the Historiography of Linguistics. Problems and Projects. Symposium at Essen, November 23-25, 1989 , Münster 1990, pp. 219–228 (here: pp. 223–226)
• Nicole Bingen and Anne-Marie Van Pass, 316. La lexicographie bilingue français-italien, italien-français, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Third volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann , Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta , Berlin. New York 1991, pp. 3007-3013
• Maria Luisa Bruna, Laurent Bray and Franz Josef Hausmann, 317. The bilingual lexicography German-Italian, Italian-German, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Third volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1991, pp. 3013-3019

Web links

• Literature by and about Annibale Antonini in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://fle.asso.free.fr/sihfles/Documents/Documents%2018/DOC%2018%20pdf/mm%20d18%20suso%20cappello.pdf (Maria Luisa Cappello, Les ouvrages grammaticaux et lexicographiques d'Annibale Antonini et leurs échos en Italie au XVIIIe siècle)