Angelo Teodoro Villa
Angelo Teodoro Villa (1720 – 1794) was an Italian Jesuit priest and scholar, publishing and editing translations from the classics as well as biographies of writers and a text on Eloquence.
Biography
[edit]He was born near Pavia. He studied eloquence and classic Greco-Latin literature in Pavia and Milan. In Pavia, he was a member of the scholarly society of the Accademia dei Transformati. He was the tutor of Greek language for Giacomo Trivulzio in Milan. Count Carlo Firmian appointed him Professor of Greco-Latin studies at the University of Pavia, where he wrote about the history of the university.[1][2]
Works
[edit]- Abduction of Helen (Ratto di Elena), Translated into Italian from the original Greek poem by Coluthus, based on a manuscript in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan, 1749, in octavo)
- Lezioni d' eloquenza, (Pavia, 1780, in octavo).
- Della Presa di Troia, (Modena, 1774), dedicated to Count Firmian. This Italian work is a translation of the work of Tryphiodorus.
- L'encomio d'Elena translation of the Greek oration by Isocrates
References
[edit]- ^ Scifoni, Felice (1849). Dizionario biografico universale. Vol. 5. Florence: Davide Passagli. p. 592.
- ^ Lezioni di eloquenza / dell'abbate Angelo Teodoro Villa, preface on the author, published in 1844 by Pietro Fiaccadori, Parma, 1844.