Girolamo Vittori

Girolamo Vittori (* 1549 in Bologna, † 17th century in Geneva) was a Swiss linguist and lexicographer of Italian origin.

Life and work

Girolamo ( Gerolamo or ) Vittori (also: Hierosme Victor ) came as a religious refugee in Geneva and published there in 1609 (also: Antwerp 1614, Paris 1973) a trilingual dictionary with two parts:

• Tesoro de las tres lenguas, española, francesa y italiana [ Spanish - French - Italian], 570 pages ( based on the Franco-Spanish dictionary by Cesar Oudin 1607, to which he added 3000 words Spanish and Italian )
• Thresor des trois langues francoise, italienne et espagnolle [French -Italian - Spanish], 420 pages ( based on the French -Latin dictionary of Jean Nicot in 1573, to which he added the Italian and Spanish )

1616-1617 ( also: 1627, 1637, 1644, 1671) appeared the work to a third part enriched:

• Tesoro delle tre lingue, italiana, francese e spagnuola [Italian - French - Spanish], 504 pages ( based on the Italian -Latin dictionary by Adriano Politi )

The dictionary was well known under the name of the publisher as the " Crespin " ( = Jacques Crespin, Geneva). An alleged edition of 1606 is to be read as 1616.

It is noteworthy that according to the dictionaries of Giovanni Antonio Canal Fenice and Pierre with the beginnings of the French-Italian dictionary are laid for the third time in the Protestant Geneva Vittori.