Bernardo Bellini

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Bernardo Bellini (born February 24, 1792 in Griante , † February 17, 1876 in Turin ) was an Italian printer, poet, translator , Latinist , Graecist , Romanist , Italianist and lexicographer .

life and work

Bellini studied in Pavia and graduated in law. He was the first to publish translations from ancient Greek, as well as his own poetry, epic and drama, partly on behalf of Caroline von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . Count Carlo Tedaldi Fores (1793–1829) gave him a high school professorship in Cremona in 1818 , where he ran a print shop for stereotype printing and first printed classics, later his own world history ( Pantografia istorica ), which he did after 74 fascicles (1831–1837) and 9,000 Had to cancel pages. In 1838 he went to Milan , 1842 to Turin , in 1848 via Novara with his family into exile in Paris . In 1852 he filled a high school professorship for rhetoric in Cagliari .

When in 1857 the Turin publisher Luigi Pomba (1821–1872) won over the publication of a large dictionary of the Italian Niccolò Tommaseo (1802–1874) and the latter asked for a colleague, he commissioned Bellini, who worked on the huge project until his death in 1876 equal namesake of the work that became famous as "Tommaseo-Bellini".

Works

  • Poetry liriche di Bernardo Bellini . Bolzani, Pavia 1816.

Dictionaries

  • (with others) Vocabolario universale della lingua italiana. Edizione eseguita su quella del Tramater di Napoli, con aggiunte e correzioni . 8 vols. Mantua 1845-1856.
  • (with Antonio Bazzarini, 1782–1850) Vocabolario universale latino-italiano italiano-latino . 2 vol. Pomba, Turin 1850-1854.
  • (with Niccolò Tommaseo) Dizionario della lingua italiana . 8 vols. Turin 1861ff.

literature

  • Liana Capitani:  BELLINI, Bernardo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 7:  Bartolucci – Bellotto. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1965.
  • Max Pfister : The Italian Lexicography from the Beginnings to 1900 , in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, pp. 1844-1863.

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personal data
SURNAME Bellini, Bernardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian printer, man of letters, translator, Latinist, Graecist, Romanist, Italianist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Griante
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1876
Place of death Turin