Egidio Forcellini was an Italian lexicographer. He was born in 1688 and died in 1768. The poverty of his parents deprived him of early advantages, and he was almost grown up when he began to study Latin in the seminary at Padua. Egidio Forcellini made rapid progress in Latin and Greek, and assisted his teacher Facciolati in his new and greatly augmented edition of Calepin's dictionary of seven languages. The two friends then resolved to publish a complete Latindictionary. The execution of this great work, occupying nearly forty years of his life, devolved entirely upon Egidio Forcellini, though he had the counsel and supervision of his old teacher. It was published in four volumes under the title AEgidii Forcellini totius Latinitatis Lexicon, etc at Padua in 1771. Research Egidio Forcellini
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