Francesco Alberti di Villanova

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Francesco Alberti di Villanova (born September 21, 1737 in Nice , † December 15, 1801 in Lucca ) was an Italian man of letters, translator, Romanist , Italianist and lexicographer.

life and work

Alberti came from a count's house, became a cleric and, after extensive travels, especially through Poland and France, developed a rich literary activity as a translator, author and lexicographer in Nice.

In accordance with the doctrine of the Enlightenment, he filled Annibale Antonini's bilingual French-Italian, Italian-French dictionary with rich encyclopedic material. Driven from Nice by the French Revolution , he created an important monolingual dictionary of Italian in 6 volumes in Tuscany, which was completed by helpers after his death. As with the bilingual dictionary, he determined the technical vocabulary partly through field research with craftsmen and other specialists and was also interested in the spoken language of the people on site.

Works

Dictionaries

  • Nouveau dictionnaire françois-Italien , composé sur les dictionnaires de l'Académie de France et de la Crusca, enrichi de tous les termes propres des sciences et des arts, qui forment une augmentation de plus de trente mille articles, sur tous les autres dictionnaires qui ont paru jusqu'à-present, Marseille 1772 (numerous editions up to 1842)
    • Nuovo dizionario italiano-francese , Marseille 1772 (numerous editions)
  • Dictionnaire abrégé portatif françois – Italy. Dizionario compendioso portatile italiano-francese , 2 vols., Venice 1774–1775 (numerous editions)
  • Dizionario universale critico, enciclopedico della lingua italiana , 6 vols., Lucca 1797-1805, Milan 1825 (XXIV, LXIX, [2], 710; 725; 736, XII; 571; 751; 946 pp.), 1834, Lucca 1998 (dedicated to Giovanni Andrea Archetti , completed by Francesco Federighi)

Other works

  • (Translator) Honoré Lacombe de Prézel (1725–1789): Dizionario del cittadino o sia Ristretto istorico, teorico e pratico del commerzio , 2 vols., Nice 1763
  • Dell'educazione fisica, e morale, o sia de 'doveri de' padri, delle madri, e de 'precettori cristiani nell'educazion de' figliuoli contro i principi del signor Rousseau di Ginevra , 2 vols., Turin 1767
  • (Translator) Le notti d'Joung (= Edward Young ), tradotte dall'inglese e dal francese, 2 vols., Naples 1782–1783

literature

  • Alberto Asor Rosa:  ALBERTI DI VILLANOVA, Francesco. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 1:  Aaron – Albertucci. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960.
  • 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 (here: 1846–1847)
  • Nicole Bingen, Anne-Marie Van Pass: 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 (here: 3009)
  • Anna Mura Porcu: Il dizionario universale della lingua italiana di F. D'Alberti di Villanuova , Rome 1990, Cagliari 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Alberti di Villanova, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alberti de Villeneuve, François; Alberti di Villanuova, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian literary man, Romanist, Italianist, translator and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Nice
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1801
Place of death Lucca