CORSI, Edoardo. – Scolopian, born at Fanano, a locality of Felicarlo, on 4 Oct. 1702; died at Pisa on 30 Nov. 1765. A distinguished polygraph, he was one of the most learned men of his time and held in high esteem by Pope Benedict XIV. While still very young, he held the chair of logic and rhetoric at the University of Pisa and published in Latin an esteemed course on philosophy.
He was also an eminent Hellenist and archaeologist, and among his works there became famous the Fasti Attici, the Dissertationes agonisticae, the Notae Graecorum, etc., as well as the Series praefectorum Urbis, which earned him no small amount of criticism. From 1754 to 1760 he lived in Rome as Superior General of the Order, then returning to his studies at the University of Pisa.