Lucio Cristoforo Scobar

Lucio Cristoforo Scobar (* 1460 in Niebla , † 1525 in Syracuse ) was an Italian Latinist, Romanist , Italianist, Hispanist, grammarian and lexicographer of Spanish origin.

life and work

Cristoforo de Escobar was a student of Antonio de Nebrija and like him went to Italy. He studied in Rome with Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli (Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus). In 1508 he became court chaplain at the Aragonese court in Palermo (and called himself Scobar in the future), in 1515 canon of Agrigento and Syracuse , where he opened a Latin school.

Scobar published a bilingual Sicilian-Latin dictionary in 1519 and a trilingual Latin-Spanish-Sicilian dictionary in 1520. According to Max Pfister, the latter is a masterpiece.

Works

• Aelij Antonij Nebrissensis ad arte [m] litteraria [m] introductiones  : cu [m] eiusde [m] exactissima expositione: additis co [m] me [n] tarijs Christophori Scobaris viri eruditissimi. Adiectis i [n] super q [ue] pluribus alijs opusculis, Venice 1512
• Vocabularium Nebrissense Ex Siciliensi sermone In Latinum L. Christophoro Schobare Bethico Interprete traductum, Venice 1519; Il Vocabolario siciliano-latino di Lucio Cristoforo Scobar. Moderna edizione, ed. by Alfonso Leone, Palermo 1990 (57 + 323 pages, based on the Lexicon hoc est Dictionarium ex sermone latino in hispaniensem , or Diccionario latino-español by Antonio de Nebrija from 1492)
• Vocabularium Nebrissense ex latino sermone in Siciliensem et Hispaniensem denuo traductum , Venice 1520; Lessico latino-spagnolo-siciliano , ed. by Rocco Distilo and Pilar Quel Barastegui, 2 vols., Messina 1990–1997 (280 + 416 pages, based on the Dictionarium ex hispaniense in latinum sermonem by Antonio de Nebrija from 1495)

literature

• Hans-Josef Niederehe, Early Italian-Spanish Language Relationships as Reflected in Glossaries, Dictionaries and Grammars, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of Linguistics and Newer Philologies , ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft, Tübingen 1994, pp. 97–116 (here: 100–102)
• Max Pfister: 187. 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: 1849)