Facciolati (Fasolato), Jacopo

FACCIOLATI (FASOLATO), JACOPO. - Italian scholar, b. at Torreglia, on the Euganean Hills, 4 Jan. 1682, d. at Padua, 26 Aug. 1769. Following his priestly vocation, he obtained a doctorate in theology in 1704. He was professor of Greek, of Latin, and of theology for several years at the Seminary of Padua, and in 1723 he was called to the chair of logic at the University of Padua. He maintained correspondence with the most illustrious scholars of the time: among others with Lagomarsino, with Maffei, with Muratori and with Cardinal Stefano Borgia. Among his pupils and collaborators he had Forcellini (v.), whom he set to work on the compilation of the Lexicon.

Among his writings, worthy of remembrance are: the corrections to the Calepinus (Padua 1708), the Ostografia moderna italiana per uso del Seminario di Padova (ibid. 1718) and the enlargement of the Apparatus Ciceronianus of Nizolius (ibid. 1734), for which works he availed himself of the help of Forcellini; De spirimi studii orationes X (ibid. 1723); Acrones dialecticae (ibid. 1726); Il giovane cittadino istruito nella scienza civile (ibid. 1740); De gymnasio Patavino syntagmata (ibid. 1752); Fasti gymnasii Patavini (ibid. 1757); Vistica teologica (ibid. 1763; an edition that also collects earlier writings on the same subject). Some of his commentaries on Cicero enjoyed particular success: the orations pro Ronco and pro Quintio (ibid. 1723), the De officiis (Venice 1747), a corpus of philosophical works (Padua 1753).

F. lacked the penetration of the philologist and the broad vision of the historian: but he had an innate humanistic taste for classicizing language, which is manifested with particular clarity in his Latin orations. Several unpublished writings are to be found at the Seminary of Padua.

Alessandro Pratesi