Antonio Riccoboni

Antonio Riccoboni
Born1541 (1541)
Rovigo, Republic of Venice
Died27 July 1599(1599-07-27) (aged 57–58)
Padua, Republic of Venice
MovementRenaissance
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Padua
Academic work
Disciplinehumanism
history
rhetoric
InstitutionsUniversity of Padua
Notable worksDe Gymnasio Patavino

Antonio Riccoboni (1541 – 27 July 1599) was an Italian scholar, active during the Renaissance as a classical scholar or humanist and historian.

Biography

Antonio Riccoboni was born in Rovigo. First making his life as a tutor, he moved in 1570 to Venice and Padua to study at the University under Paolo Manuzio, Marc-Antoine Muret, and Carlo Sigonio. By 1571, he had been granted a doctorate in civil law, and soon after degrees in canon law. The next year he obtained a post as professor rhetoric at the university, succeeding Giovanni Fasolo.

Among his works were comments regarding the Poetics and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. He also published De Gymnasio Patavino (1598) about the University of Padua. He was among those to claim as fraudulent the Consolatio of Cicero published by Sigonio. Riccoboni died in Padua.[1]

In obitu Iacobi Zabarellae, 1590

Main works

References

  1. ^ Nova Enciclopedia Popolare Italiana. Vol. 19 (5 ed.). Turin: Societa L'Unione Tipografica-Editrice. 1864. p. 512.

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