Vittore Trincavelli (also ''Vettore'' or ''Victor Trincavelli''; 1496–1568) was an eminent Italian
physician, but is most famous as the editor of some of the first editions of the
Greek classics
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Biography
Trincavelli was born and died at
Venice
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. He began his medical studies at the
University of Padua, and went afterwards to the
University of Bologna, where he became so distinguished for his knowledge of the
Ancient Greek, that the professors of the university would often consult him on difficult passages, and he was honoured by the name of the "Greek scholar." After remaining seven years at Bologna, he returned to Padua to earn his
medical doctorate and then to the
University of Venice, where he was appointed successor to
Sebastian Fuscareni in the chair of philosophy.
His time was divided between his lectures, his private studies, and his practice as a physician. The latter was so extensive as to bring him annually about three thousand crowns of gold. In 1551 he was appointed successor to
Johannes Baptista Montanus, in the medical professorship at Padua, and exchanged the profits of his practice for a salary of 950 crowns, which the senate afterwards increased to 1600. While being a professor there, he was the first who lectured on
Hippocrates in the original language. Finding the infirmities of age approach, he resigned his office, and returned to Venice, where he died in 1568, aged 71.
[Alexander Chalmers, (editor), 1812]
''The General biographical dictionary: containing an historical and critical account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation'', volume 30.
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Works
His medical writings, most of which had been published separately, were printed together in 2 volumes at Leyden, in 1586 and 1592, and at Venice in 1599. He was editor of the following first editions:Hesiod
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'', 1536. The scholia and text of this edition formed the basis of many subsequent editions.
Trincavelli also published editions of Stobaeus and other Greek writers.
References
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1496 births
1568 deaths
16th-century Italian physicians
Italian classical scholars
Physicians from Venice
16th-century Venetian writers
16th-century male writers