Angelo Teodoro Villa

Angelo Teodoro Villa (1720–1794) was an Italian Jesuit priest and scholar, publishing and editing translations from the classics as well as biographies of writers and a text on Eloquence.

Biography He was born near Pavia. He studied eloquence and classic Greco-Latin literature in Pavia and Milan. In Pavia, he was a member of the scholarly society of the Accademia dei Transformati. He was the tutor of Greek language for Giacomo Trivulzio in Milan. Count Carlo Firmian appointed him Professor of Greco-Latin studies at the University of Pavia, where he wrote about the history of the university.

Works Abduction of Helen (Ratto di Elena), Translated into Italian from the original Greek poem by Coluthus, based on a manuscript in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan, 1749, in octavo) Lezioni d' eloquenza, (Pavia, 1780, in octavo). Della Presa di Troia, (Modena, 1774), dedicated to Count Firmian. This Italian work is a translation of the work of Tryphiodorus. L'encomio d'Elena translation of the Greek oration by Isocrates