Vettor Fausto
[5] In 1508–1509, he studied under, worked for and lived with the professor Gerolamo Maserio at the Scuola di San Marco.
[4] Fausto published his first Greek epigram in 1509 in Giovanni Tacuino's [it] edition of Noctes Atticae by Aulus Gellius.
According to a letter he wrote to Jacopo Sannazaro in early 1511, Parrasio absconded with 90 of his books, abandoning him at Chioggia.
The majority of his books were in Greek: Aeschylus, Plutarch, Theocritus, Athenaeus, Lucian, Nikephoros Blemmydes and Cyril of Alexandria.
[11] He probably brought with him Tacuino's Greek type for use in the fifth volume of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, published in 1514.
[12] Although his overall role with the bible was minor, he did contribute one of the introductory Greek epigrams praising the project's founded, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros.
[14] From 1513 to 1515, during the War of the League of Cambrai, Fausto served in the Venetian army in the Terraferma under Bartolomeo d'Alviano.
[2] According to Lilia Campana: Fausto's authorship greatly contributed to the restoration of Greek science in the Western world and inaugurated a new field of study devoted to mechanical questions.
It also enacted a cultural process that gradually led to the legitimization of the artes mechanicae, paving the way for the scientific revolution [...] It was because of Fausto's contribution to Renaissance science that sixteenth-century Venetian Humanism, in its last phase, embraced topics focusing on banausic arts and, in doing so, legitimized the ars mechanica into a scientia.
[16] The integration of mathematics, mechanics, and other scientific topics into Venetian Renaissance culture is affirmed by the organization of the Accademia Veneziana in 1557.
He competed for and won the chair of Greek at the Scuola di San Marco, although his rival, Egnazio, complained of "machinations".
[21] In 1530, Fausto succeeded Andrea Navagero as librarian of what would become the Biblioteca Marciana, including the collection granted to Venice by Cardinal Bessarion.
[25] His Orationes quinque were published posthumously by the Aldine Press in 1551, dedicated to Pier Francesco Contarini with a brief introductory biography of Fausto by Paolo Ramusio.
[9] He also made marginal annotations in his copy of the editio princeps of Homer's Iliad, published at Florence in 1488.
His notes show that he had access to the famous Homeric codex Venetus A, which was in the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr.
His known correspondents include Andrea Navagero, Jacopo Sannazaro, Pietro Bembo, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Marino Becichemo, Lucilio Maggi "Philalteus" and Giustino Decadio.
