Angelo Teodoro Villa Explained

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

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

• 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Scifoni, Felice. Dizionario biografico universale. 5. Davide Passagli. Florence. 1849. 592.
2. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044038404331&seq=30 Lezioni di eloquenza / dell'abbate Angelo Teodoro Villa