, who has the credit of promoting Italian literature in the last century,
, who has the credit of promoting
Italian literature in the last century, particularly in France,
was a native of Verdun. His name was Vigntron, but as
he had made the Italian language his study, and wished to
acquire reputation at Paris as a teacher, he Italianized his
name, and gave out that he was a native of Florence.
He published an Italian Grammar and Dictionary; both of
which have been repeatedly printed in France and Eng T
land, but with modern improvements. He published also
Translations of Bentivoglio’s and Loredano’s letters, the
Italian on one side. His grammar, it is said, was not written by him, but by the famous Roselli, whose adventures
have been printed as a romance. This latter, passing
through France, dined with Veneroni, who finding that he
reasoned very justly upon the Italian language, engaged
him to compose a grammar, for which he gave him a hundred franks. Veneroni only made some additions according to his taste, and published the book under his own
name. His “Translation of the Select Fables,
” is printed
with a German version and plates, Augsburg, 1709, 4to.
We find no account of his death; but, from the dates of
his publications, he appears to have flourished, if that
phrase be allowable in his case, in the early part of the last
century.