Angiolini, Francesco
Angiolini, Francesco
A noted scholar, b. at Piscenza, Italy, 1750; d. at Polotsk, 21 February, 1788. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1765, and after the suppression of the Jesuits, retired to Polotsk. Angiolini has left after him many works that attest to his scholarship. He is author of a Polish grammar for the use of Italians; he wrote original poems in Italian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and several comedies in Polish, and a translation from the Greek into Italian in three octavo volumes of Josephus Flavius (Florence, Paolo Fumagalli, 1840-44). Angiolini also translated into his mother tongue the Electra, Oedipus, and Antigone of Sophocles (Rome, 1782). Other works of Angiolini are an Italian translation of Thucydides, incomplete, and a Polish translation of Sophocles.
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Sommervogel, Biblioth., I, 391; Cassani, Varones Ilustres. III, 268-277.
JOSEPH M. WOODS
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Angiolini, Francesco
an Italian Jesuit, was born in 1738. He studied at Bologna, and was appointed professor of literature at the college of the Jesuits in Modena. He died in 1788. At the period of the suppression of this order in Italy, he retired to Verona, where he translated into Italian the history of the Jews, by Josephus Giosefo Flavio, Delle Antichita de’ Giudei (Verona, 1779- 80; Rome, 1792; Milan, 1821). He also translated into Italian several tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides Elettra, Edipo, Antigone: Tragedie di Sofocle, e il Ciclope di Euripide, Traduzione IIlustrata con Note (Rome, 1782). The translator here united certain poems in Italian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. At the tidings that the empress Catherine of Russia accorded an asylum to the members of the Order of Jesuits, Angiolini went to Russia with his two brothers, and became professor in the newly founded universities of Polotsk, Witepsk, Mohilov, and Moscow. He left in manuscript a history of his order after its establishment in Russia, continued by Ignatius Peter Buoni down to 1830. It is uncertain whether or not this work was ever published. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.