Lodovico Domenichi

Lodovico Domenichi (1515–1564) was an Italian translator.

Ludovico Domenichi by Domenico Poggini

Biography

Lodovico Domenichi was born in Piacenza (Italy) in 1515. After studying Law at the University of Padua, he pursued a literary career. He lived in Piacenza, Venice and Florence. He was renowned for his editions and translations of classical authors, including Xenophon, Plutarch, Polybius, and Pliny the Elder. He also authored the first Italian translation of the Letter of Aristeas.[1] Dominichi died in Pisa, Tuscany (Italy) on August 29, 1564.

Works

Facetie, Motti, et Burle, di diversi signori et persone private, 1571
  • I Fatti de Greci, di Senofonte, isette, libri di Senofone delia impresa di Ciro (Venice: Giolito, 1547, 1548, 1558)
  • Polibio historio greco (Venice: Giolito, 1545, 1553)
  • Historia naturale di G. Plinio secundo (Venice: Giolito, 1561)
  • Severino Boczio de Conforti filosofici (Florence: Torrentino, 1550; Venice: Giolito, 1562)
  • Istorie del suo tempo di Paolo Giovio (Florence: Torrentino, 1531, 1553)
  • Le Vite di Léon X e di Adriano VI pontefeci, e del cardinale Pompeo Colonna, del medesimo Paolo Giorno (Florence: Torrentino, 1549)
  • Aristea de settanta due interpreti (Florence: Torrentino, 1550)
gollark: ... the point is that if the thing which is varying is in the exponent it's "exponential", if the exponent is constant it's "polynomial" or something.
gollark: Exponential would be if it was 2^x or something.
gollark: ... no.
gollark: You are still wrong about it being exponential though, since the "drag equation" is quadratic in velocity.
gollark: It's an approximation for certain cases.

References

  • "Lodovico Domenichi", in Louis-Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, 2nd ed., 1843-65.


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