FACCIOLA.'TI, JA'COPO, was born in 1682 at Toriggia on the Euganean Hills, in the province of Padua. He studied first in the college of Este, and was afterwards placed by Cardinal Barbarigo, bishop of Padua, in the clerical seminary of that city, where he com pleted his studies and was admitted into holy orders. He was then appointed teacher and afterwards priefect or superior of the same establishment. The seminary of Padua had then as subsequently a high reputation as a place for the study of Latin and for the nume rous and generally accurate editions of the classics and other school books which have coma from its press. Feeclolati contributed to support this reputation by his labours. Among other works he pub lished improved editions of the 'Lexicon' of Schrevelius, of the ' Thesaurus Ciceronianus' of Nizolium, and of the vocabulary of seven languages, known by the name of ' Calapino,' 2 vols. fol., 1731. In this last undertaking he was greatly assisted by his pupil, Egidio Forcellini, although ho was not willing to acknowledge tho obligation. The work however being still incomplete, J. B. Oallizioli made a new edition of the 'Calepino,' 2 vols. fol., Venice, 1778, and added many oriental and other words. It was in the course of his joint labours with Facciolati that Forcellini conceived the plan of a totally new Latin Dictionary, which, after more than thirty years assiduous appli cation, ho brought to light under the title of ' Totius Latinitatis Lexicon,' 4 vole. fol., Padua, /771. This work has superseded all other Latin dictionaries. Forcellini, more generous than Facciolati, acknowledged in tho title-page of his work that its production was in great measure due to the advice and instruction of his deceased master.
The manuscript of his ' Lexicon,' in 12 vole. fol., is preserved in the library of the seminary. A new edition of Lexicon' was published some years back by the Abate Furlanetto of the same Institution.
In 1722, Facciolati being appointed professor of logic in the uni versity of Padua, delivered a series of introductory Latin discourses to the students of his class, which were received with considerable applause. In 1739 ha began to write in Latin the Fasti of the University of Padua :' the introductory part, in which he describes the orizin, the laws and regulations, and the object of that celebrated institution, is very well written, but the Fasti' themselves contain little more than dry lists of the successive professor, with few and unimportant remarks. Ilia Latin epistles, as well as his Orations,' or discourse', have been admired for the purity of their diction. The king of Portugal sent Faceiolati a flattering invitation to Lisbon to take the direction of the public studies in his kingdom, but Facciolati declined the offer on account of his advanced age. He however wrote instructions for the re-organisation of the scholastic, establishments of that country, which had become necessary after the expulsion of the Jesuits. Facciolati died at Padua in 1769, in his eighty-eighth year. Ile left numerous works, mostly In Latin, besides those already mentioned.