FACCIOLATI (FASOLATO), JACOFO. — Italian scholar, born at Torreglia, in the Euganean Hills, on 4 January 1682, died at Padua on 26 August 1769. Following his priestly vocation, he obtained a doctorate in theology in 1704. For several years he was professor of Greek, Latin, and theology at the Seminary of Padua, and in 1723 he was appointed to the chair of logic at the University of Padua. He corresponded with the most distinguished scholars of the period, among them Lagomarsino, Maffei, Muratori, and Cardinal Stefano Borgia. Among FORCELLINI, EGIDIO (v.), whom he initiated into the compilation of the Lexicon.
Among his writings, the following deserve mention: his corrections to the Calepinus (Padua 1708), the Ostografia moderna italiana per uso del Seminario di Padova (there 1718), and the expansion of Nizolius’s Apparatus Ciceronianus (there 1734), for which works he benefited from Forcellini’s assistance; De spirimi studii orationes X (there 1723); Acrones dialecticae (there 1726); Il giovane cittadino istruito nella scienza civile (there 1740); De gymnasio Patavina syntagmata (there 1752); Fasti gymnasii Patavini (there 1757); Vistica teologica (there 1763; an edition that also gathers earlier writings on the same subject). Some of his commentaries on Cicero enjoyed particular success: the orations pro Ronco and pro Quintio (there 1723), De officiis (Venice 1747), and a corpus of philosophical works (Padua 1753).
F. lacked the philologist’s insight and the historian’s broad vision; but he possessed an innate humanistic taste for classicizing language, which is especially evident in his Latin orations. Several unpublished writings are held at the Seminary of Padua.