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SIGONIUS, CAROLUS [CARLO SIGONIO Or SIGONE] (c. 1524-1584) , See also:Italian humanist, was See also:born at See also:Modena. Having studied See also:Greek under the learned Franciscus See also:Portus of See also:Candia, he attended the philosophical See also:schools of See also:Bologna and See also:Pavia, and in 1545 was elected See also:professor of Greek in his native See also:place in See also:succession to Portus. In 1552 he was appointed to a professorship at See also:Venice, which he exchanged for the See also:chair of eloquence at See also:Padua in 156o. To this See also:period of his See also:life belongs the famous See also:quarrel with Robertelli, due to the publication by Sigonius of a See also:treatise De nominibus Romanorum, in which he corrected several errors in a See also:work of Robertelli on the same subject. The quarrel was patched up by the intervention of -See also:Cardinal Seripando (who purposely stopped on his way to the See also:Council of See also:Trent), but See also:broke out again in 1562, when the two rivals found themselves colleagues at Padua. Sigonius, who was of a peaceful disposition, thereupon accepted (in 1563) a See also:call to Bologna. He died in a See also:country See also:house See also:purchased by him in the neighbourhood of Modena, in See also:August 1584. The last See also:year of his life was embittered by another See also:literary dispute. In 1583 there was published at Venice what purported to be See also:Cicero's Consolatio, written as a See also:distraction from his grief at the See also:death of his daughter Tullia. Sigonius declared that, if not genuine, it was at least worthy of Cicero; those who held the opposite view (See also:Antonio See also:Riccoboni, Justus See also:Lipsius, and others) asserted that Sigonius himself had written it with the See also:object of deceiving the learned See also:world, a See also:charge which he explicitly denied. The work is now universally regarded as a See also:forgery, whoever mayhave been the author of it.

Sigonius's reputation chiefly rests upon his publications on Greek and See also:

Roman antiquities, which may even now be consulted with See also:advantage: See also:Fasti consulares (1550; new ed., See also:Oxford, 1802), with commentary, from the See also:regal period to Tiberius, the first work in which the See also:history of See also:Rome was set forth in See also:chronological See also:order, based upon some fragments of old See also:bronze tablets dug up in 1547 on the site of the old See also:Forum; an edition of See also:Livy with the Scholia; De antiquo jure Romanorum, Italiae, provinciarum (156o) and De Romanae jurisprudentiae judiciis (1574); De republica Atheniensium (1564) and De Atheniensium et Lacedaemoniorum temporibus (1565), the first well-arranged See also:account of the constitution, history, and See also:chronology of See also:Athens and See also:Sparta, with which may be mentioned a similar work on the religious, See also:political, and military See also:system of the See also:Jews (De republica Ebraeorum). His history of the See also:kingdom of See also:Italy (De regno Italiae, 158o) from the invasion of the See also:Lombards (568) to the end of the 13th See also:century forms a See also:companion See also:volume to the history of the western See also:empire (De occidentali imperio, 1579) from See also:Diocletian to its destruction. In order to obtain material for these See also:works, Sigonius consulted all the archives and See also:family See also:chronicles of Italy, and the public and private See also:libraries, and the autograph MS. of his De regno Italiae, containing all the preliminary studies and many documents not used in See also:print, was discovered in the Ambrosian library of See also:Milan. At the See also:request of See also:Gregory XIII. he undertook to write the history of the See also:Christian See also:Church, but did not live to See also:complete the work. The most complete edition of his works is that by P. Argelati (Milan, 1732-1737), which contains his life by L. A. See also:Muratori, the only trustworthy authority for the biographer; see also G. See also:Tiraboschi, Storia See also:delta letteratura italiana, vii.; Ginguene, Histoire littiraire d'Italie; J. P. Krebs, Carl Sigonius (184o), including some Latin letters of Sigonius and a complete See also:list of his works in chronological order; Franciosi, Della vita e delle opere di Carlo Sigonio (Modena, 1872) ; Hessel, De regno Italiae libri XX. von Carlo Sigonio, eine quellenkritische Untersuchung (1900); and J. E.

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Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, ii. (1908), p. 143.

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