Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani

Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani (161729 October 1661) was an Italian classical scholar, translator, and canonist.

Biography Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani was born in Bologna in 1617. He obtained his doctorate in philosophy and jurisprudence from the University of Bologna in 1634. He was a professor of logic at the University of Padua, but his knowledge in the classics drew him to Rome, where he occupied a variety of positions: consistorial lawyer, secretary of the Roman Inquisition, Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura, and canon of St. Peter. In 1646, he published a critical edition of Ocellus Lucanus' De universi natura with his own Latin translation. This important work was reissued by Joan Blaeu in 1661. In 1658, Vizzani became rector of the Sapienza University of Rome. He died in 1661 and was buried in the Dominican church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. His funeral monument was designed and sculpted by Domenico Guidi. Vizzani was a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti of Venice and the Accademia dei Gelati of Bologna.

Works

Epistola græco-latina super raptum Helenæ a Guidone Rheno depictum. Bononiae, typ. Ferronii, 1633.