Antonio Riccoboni (1541 – 1599) was an Italian scholar, active during the Renaissance as a classical scholar or

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and historian.

Biography

Antonio Riccoboni was born in

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. First making his life as a

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, he moved in 1570 to

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and Padua to study at the

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under

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, and

Carlo Sigonio Carolus Sigonius (Carlo Sigonio or Sigone) (c. 152412 August 1584) was an Italian Humanism, humanist, born in Modena. Biography Having studied Ancient Greek, Greek under the learned Franciscus Portus of Heraklion, Candia, he attended the ph ...

. By 1571, he had been granted a

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in civil law, and soon after degrees in canon law. The next year he obtained a post as professor

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at the university, succeeding Giovanni Fasolo. Among his works were comments regarding the ''

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'' and ''

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'' of

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. He also published ''De Gymnasio Patavino'' (1598) about the University of Padua. He was among those to claim as fraudulent the ''

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'' of

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published by Sigonio. Riccoboni died in Padua.Nova Enciclopedia Populare Italiana
Quinta edizione, volumen 19, Societa L'Unione Tipografica-Editrice, Turin (1864):page 512.

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Bibliography

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Riccobini Antonio 1541 births 1599 deaths Italian classical scholars Italian Renaissance humanists 16th-century Italian writers