Antonio Riccoboni

Antonio Riccoboni
Scepter of Antonio Riccoboni
Born	1541 Rovigo
Died	1599 Padua
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Humanist and historian

Antonio Riccoboni (1541 – 1599) was an Italian scholar, active during the Renaissance as a classic 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 canonl 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]

Main works[]

• Riccoboni, Antonio (1568). De Historia commentarius (in Latin). Venetiis. Apud Ioannem Barilettum.
• Riccoboni, Antonio (1598). De gymnasio patavino (in Latin) (1 ed.). Patavii. apud Franciscum Bolzetam.
• Riccoboni, Antonio (1722). De gymnasio patavino (in Latin) (2 ed.). Leiden. Pieter van der Aa.
• Riccoboni, Antonio (1599). De poetica Aristotelis cum Horatio collatus (in Latin). Patavii.
• Riccoboni, Antonio (1590). In obitu Iacobi Zabarellae (in Latin). Patavii. apud Paulum Meiettum.

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Venier, Matteo (2016). "RICCOBONI, Antonio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 87: Renzi–Robortello (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.