ARCANGELI, GIUSEPPE

ARCANGELI, GIUSEPPE. — Born at S. Marcello Pistoiese on 13 Dec. 1807, died at Florence on 17 Sept. 1855; he studied at the Seminary of Pistoia and was ordained priest in 1831. He was professor of Latin and Greek and rector of the Cicognini College in Prato, where, together with Atto Vannucci and Enrico Bindi, he initiated a collection of commented Latin classics for school use, which yielded excellent results. A fluent and elegant writer, he contributed to newspapers and reviews in Florence, such as *L'Alba*, *Lo Spettatore*, *La Rivista*, revealing himself, in politics, as a moderate liberal. In 1848 he was admitted to the Accademia della Crusca and later became its secretary. There he took part in the compilation of the celebrated dictionary and delivered reports, speeches, and lectures written in an easy and spontaneous style, free from rhetorical flourishes. He was also a member of the Florentine academies, the Ateneo Italiano and the Colombaria. In his later years he translated Callimachus’ Hymns, the *Iliad*, and, in aliferian verse, Ponsard’s pseudoclassical tragedy *Lucrezia*.