VIVIANI, QUIRICO. - Priest and man of letters, b. at Soligo (Treviso) in 1784, d. at Padua on 9 Nov. 1835.
He completed his studies at Padua in the school of Cesarotti, who always helped and protected him. Ordained a priest, he settled at Udine, where he taught Italian and history in that Lyceum, at the same time that he was sending to press collections of verse (Canzoni militari, Brescia 1807) and works of profound culture, such as the critical edition of the Divine Comedy according to the Bartolinian codex, the translations of Vitruvius' Architecture, of Virgil's Bucolics, of Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum, and a Discorso sull'indole delle istituzioni scientifiche del sec. XIX. In his vast output there should also be remembered numerous translations of contemporary French works, collections of Massime that enjoyed wide success and were rendered into several languages, as well as a Manuale filosofico della lingua italiana, which death prevented him from completing. Entirely averse to politics, he was nevertheless forced to leave his Udine chair at the fall of the Kingdom of Italy; he then retired to Padua, devoting himself exclusively to study and to charitable works. To this truly apostolic side of his activity belongs an eloquent Orazione of a social character, in which he examined the phenomenon of pauperism and pointed out the most suitable means of resolving it within the framework of Christian charity.
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Renzo U. Montini