Vincenzo de Vit
Reverend Vincenzo de Vit | |
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philologist | |
Known for | Revision of Egidio Forcellini's Lexicon totius latinitatis |
Title | abbot |
Parent(s) | Antonio De Vit and Elisabetta De Vit (née Carturana) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Padua |
Influences |
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Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical scholar, Latinist |
Influenced | Theodor Mommsen[1] |
Vincenzo de Vit (b. Mestrina, near Padua, 10 July 1810; d. Domodossola, 18 August 1892) was an Italian Latin scholar and historian of Ancient Rome.
Biography
He made his studies at Padua, was ordained priest in 1836, in 1844 became librarian of the Academia dei Concordi at
Works
De Vit's idea differed from that of Forcellini and Furlanetto, it being his intention to include in his book all the periods and all the varieties of Latin down to A.D. 568. He likewise gave an exact digest of the authors of the Church Fathers, and accorded considerable space to inscriptions, which he also treated in special works. His work was a third larger than Furlanetto's edition, which extension compelled him to leave out proper names. The Lexicon totius latinitatis was completed in 1879. De Vit undertook the Onomasticon, which he brought down to the beginning of the letter P. The "Lexicon" allows the restoration of the exact history of each word according to writers and periods.
He also worked on the history of his home town, and published his researches in eight volumes:
- Il lago maggiore Stresa e le isole Borromeo (Prato, 1875–78)
- Memorie storiche di Borgomanero e del suo mandamento (1859; 2nd ed., 1880)
- Adria e le sue antiche epigrafi illustrate (Prato, 1888)
- La provincia romana dell' Ossola ossia delle Alpe Atreziane (Pratom 1892).
All these works were collected in a series of "Opere varie" (11 vols., Prato, 1875–92), which also contains numerous memoirs of antiquity and
References
- ^ a b c d Nardo 1991.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Vincenzo de Vit". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. cites:
- Ferrero, Ermanno (1899). "Vincenzo De-Vit". Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde. XXII. Leipzig: 26–30.
- Nardo, Dante (1991). "DE VIT, Vincenzo". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Works by or about Vincenzo de Vit at Internet Archive