Jacopo Facciolati

As a professor of logic and regent of the schools, Facciolati became the leading academic of Padua university during a period of forty-five years.

Facciolati was known overall Europe as one of the most enlightened and zealous teachers of the time; and among the many flattering invitations which he received, but always declined, was one from the king of Portugal, to accept the directorship of a college at Lisbon for the young nobility.

It was written in seven languages, and suggested to the editor the idea of his opus magnum, the Totius Latinitatis Lexicon,[3] which was ultimately published at Cardinal Priole's expense, 4 vols.

[4] In the compilation of this work, the chief burden seems to have been borne by Facciolati's pupil Forcellini, to whom, however, the lexicographer allows a very scanty measure of justice.

[4] In or about 1739, Facciolati undertook the continuation of Nicolò Comneno Papadopoli, who wrote a history of the University of Padua, carrying it on to his own day.