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VINCENZO DE, an Italian Latinist; born in Padua, Italy, in 1811.
He was an ecclesiastic by profession, was a canon of Rovigo, and town librarian, when in 1850 he joined the brotherhood of Rosmini. On his jubilee in 1888 Leo XIII. sent him a gold medal. He edited Forcellini's "Complete Latin Lexicon" in six volumes, and wrote a supplemental seventh volume, giving in 1,000 pages in double columns all the words in recently discovered inscriptions or codices. His minor writings on history, archæology, and philology have been collected in a uniform edition published at Milan and Florence. His greatest original work is the "Onomasticon," or "Namebook," containing all proper names down to the 5th century. Thirty-six years' labor had just brought him to the end of O, clos- Vol. X VITAMINES VITELLIUS ing the fourth volume, when he died, fact that their diet lacked the water Aug. 17, 1892.