Girolamo Vittori

Girolamo Vittori (* 1549 in Bologna ; † 17th century in Geneva ) was a Swiss Romance philologist and lexicographer of Italian origin.

life and work

Girolamo (or Gerolamo) Vittori (also: Hierosme Victor) came to Geneva as a religious refugee and published there in 1609 (also: Antwerp 1614, Paris 1973) a trilingual dictionary with two parts:

• [1] Tesoro de las tres lenguas, española, francesa y italiana [Spanish-French-Italian], 570 pages (based on César Oudin's Spanish-French dictionary in 1607, to which he added 3000 words of Spanish and Italian)
• [2] Thresor des trois langues francoise, italienne et espagnolle [French-Italian-Spanish], 420 pages (based on Jean Nicot's French-Latin dictionary in 1573, to which he added Italian and Spanish)

1616–1617 (also: 1627, 1637, 1644, 1671) the work appeared enriched by a third part:

• [3] Tesoro delle tre lingue, italiana, francese e spagnuola [Italian-French-Spanish], 504 pages (based on the Italian-Latin dictionary by Adriano Politi )

The dictionary was widely known under the name of the publisher as the "Crespin" (= Jacques Crespin, Geneva). An alleged edition of 1606 can be read as 1616.

It is noteworthy that after the dictionaries of Giovanni Antonio Fenice and Pierre Canal, with that of Vittori, the beginnings of the French-Italian dictionary have been moved to Protestant Geneva for the third time .

literature

• Louis Cooper, Girolamo Vittori y César Oudin. Un caso de plagio mutuo, in: Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 14, 1960, pp. 3-20
• Nicole Bingen / Anne-Marie Van Passen, 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
• Annamaria Gallina, 314. La lexicographie bilingue espagnol-Italien, Italien-Espagnol, 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. 2991-2997
• Robert A. Verdonk , 312. La lexicographie bilingue espagnol-français, français-espagnol, 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. 2976-2987

Web links

• Luis Pablo Núñez, Dos ejemplares de la supuesta edición inexistente del Diccionario de Vittori de 1614 (PDF; 1.2 MB)