Antonio Riccoboni (1541 – 27 July 1599) was an Italian scholar, active during the

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as a classical scholar or

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and historian.

Biography

Antonio Riccoboni was born in

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. First making his life as a

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, he moved in 1570 to

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and Padua to study at the

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under

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, and Carlo Sigonio. By 1571, he had been granted a

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in civil law, and soon after degrees in canon law. The next year he obtained a post as professor

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at the university, succeeding Giovanni Fasolo. Among his works were comments regarding the ''

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'' and ''

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'' of

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. He also published ''De Gymnasio Patavino'' (1598) about the University of Padua. He was among those to claim as fraudulent the ''Consolatio (Cicero), Consolatio'' of Cicero published by Sigonio. Riccoboni died in Padua.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Riccobini Antonio 1541 births 1599 deaths Italian classical scholars Italian Renaissance humanists 16th-century Italian writers Scholars from the Republic of Venice