LAMPREDI, URBANO. - Scholar, b. in Florence on 13 Feb. 1761, a Piarist in 1778, d. in Naples on 23 Feb. 1838. A supreme Hellenist, a poet emulating Monti and the men of letters of his time, he also distinguished himself in philosophy and in the mathematical and physical sciences.

He held the office of teacher with honor in various colleges of the Order; but during the Napoleonic upheavals he allowed himself to be carried along by the current of innovation, also undertaking long journeys in several nations. His translation of several Greek authors, especially of the Odyssey and of a good part of the Iliad, was admired by the learned. Noteworthy are the critical articles he wrote in the Poligrafo, of which L. was one of the principal editors, as were also his literary polemics.

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BIBL.: E. Rocco, in E. Tipaldo, Biografie, VII, Venice 1834, p. 381 ff.; A. Checcucci, Elogio di U. L., in Commentario della vita e delle opere del p. Pozzetti, Florence 1858, pp. 257-82; J. Vendryes, Le langage. Introduction linguistique à l'histoire, Paris 1921; M. Battistini, U. L. nel Belgio, in Giorn. stor. della lett. ital., 108 (1933), pp. 1-32.

Luodegario Picanyol

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