Doctor Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani
Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani
Born	1617 Bologna,Papal States
Died	29 October 1661(1661-10-29) (aged 43–44) Rome,Papal States
Resting place	Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Nationality	Italian
Occupation(s)	Classical scholar,university teacher,canon lawyer
Parent(s)	Giasone Vizzani and Plautilla Vizzani (née Ghiselli)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Bologna Sapienza University of Rome
Influences	Pythagoreans Ocellus Lucanus
Academic work
Discipline	Ancient Greek Scholar, jurist
Institutions	University of Padua Sapienza University of Rome
Notable students	Annibale Ranuzzi

Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani (1617 – 29 October 1661) was an Italianclassical scholar,translator, andcanonist.

Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani was born in Bologna in 1617. He obtained his doctorate inphilosophy andjurisprudence from the University of Bologna in 1634. He was a professor oflogic at theUniversity of Padua, but his knowledge in theclassics drew him to Rome, where he occupied a variety of positions: consistorial lawyer, secretary of theRoman Inquisition, Referendary of theApostolic Signatura, andcanon ofSt. Peter. In 1646 he published acritical edition ofOcellus Lucanus'De universi natura with his own Latin translation.^[1] This important work was reissued byJoan Blaeu in 1661.^[2] In 1658 Vizzani becamerector of theSapienza University of Rome. He died in 1661 and was buried in theDominican church ofSanta Maria Sopra Minerva. His funeral monument was designed and sculpted byDomenico Guidi.^[3][4] Vizzani was a member of theAccademia degli Incogniti ofVenice and theAccademia dei Gelati of Bologna.

• Epistola græco-latina super raptum Helenæ a Guidone Rheno depictum. Bononiae, typ. Ferronii, 1633.
• Pseudo-Ocellus Lucanus (1646). Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani (ed.).Περὶ τῆς τοῦ παντὸς φύσεως/De Universi natura (in Latin and Greek). Bologna: ex typographia Ferroniana.
• De mandatis principum, seu de officio eorum, qui in provincias cum imperio mittuntur. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu. 1656.

• «Carlo Emanuel Vizzani Bolognese». In :Le glorie de gli Incogniti: o vero, Gli huomini illustri dell'Accademia de' signori Incogniti di Venetia, In Venetia : appresso Francesco Valuasense stampator dell'Accademia, 1647, pp. 88–91 (on-line).
• «Carlo Emanuelle Vizzani». In :Memorie imprese, e ritratti de' signori Accademici Gelati di Bologna, In Bologna : per li Manolessi, 1672, pp. 98–102 (on-line).

• 1617 births
• 1661 deaths
• Scholars from the Papal States
• People from Bologna
• 17th-century Italian jurists
• 17th-century Italian writers
• 17th-century Italian translators
• University of Bologna alumni
• Sapienza University of Rome alumni
• Academic staff of the University of Padua
• Greek–Latin translators
• Canon law jurists
• Italian classical scholars

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