Antonio Riccoboni

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Antonio Riccoboni (1541–27 July 1599) was an Italian Renaissance scholar, known as a classical scholar, humanist and historian. He was born in Rovigo. He started as a tutor and, in 1570, moved to Venice and Padua to study at the University of Padua, studying with Paolo Manuzio, Marc-Antoine Muret and Carlo Sigonio. By 1571 he earned a doctorate in civil law, and soon after a degree in canon law. In 1572 he became a professor of rhetoric at Padua, succeeding Giovanni Fasolo. He wrote about Aristotle’s Poetics and Nicomachean Ethics. He published De Gymnasio Patavino (1598) about the University of Padua. He was among those who argued that Sigonio’s publication of Cicero’s Consolatio was fraudulent. Riccoboni died in Padua.