Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani

Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani was born in Bologna in 1617. He obtained his doctorate in philosophy and jurisprudence from the University of Bologna in 1634. He was a professor of logic at the University of Padua, but his knowledge in the classics drew him to Rome, where he occupied a variety of positions: consistorial lawyer, secretary of the Roman Inquisition, referendary of the Segnatura, and canon of St Peter. He edited an important Greek-Latin edition of the De universi natura, a Pythagorean work composed in four books in the second century BC, and attributed to Ocellus Lucanus.[1] His burial monument is in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva.

• Pseudo-Ocellus Lucanus (1646). Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani (ed.). Περὶ τῆς τοῦ παντὸς φύσεως/De Universi natura (in Latin and Greek). Bologna: ex typographia Ferroniana.