Filippo Venuti
Filippo Venuti (* 1531 in Cortona ; † 1587 ) was an Italian translator, Latinist, Italianist and lexicographer.
life and work
In 1562, Venuti published a very successful Italian-Latin dictionary that played a role in the early lexicography of Italian. He translated Cicero, Horace and Virgil from Latin into Italian.
Works
- Dittionario volgare et latino nel quale si contiene, come i vocaboli italiani si possano dire et esprimere latinamente , Venice 1562 (numerous editions up to 1614, then continued as Dittionario italiano e francese in: Pierre Canal , Dictionnaire françois et Italien )
literature
- Gunnar Tancke, The Italian dictionaries from the beginning to the publication of the “Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca” (1612). Inventory and analysis , Tübingen 1984
Web links
- Literature by and about Filippo Venuti in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.richardwolf.de/latein/venuti.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Venuti, Filippo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian translator, Latinist, Italianist and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1531 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cortona |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1587 |