Victorius
Petrus (Pietro Vettori). A great classical scholar and critic of the
time of the Italian Renaissance, born in 1499 and died in 1584. He published editions of
Cicero (with commentary), Sophocles (with commentary and scholia), Aeschylus, Aristotle's
Rhetoric, Ethics, Politics, Poetics, De Partibus Animalium (translation and
commentary), Xenophon's
Memorabilia, Terence, Sallust, Varro
De Re
Rustica, Demetrius Phalereus
De Elocutione, Dionysius, Isaeus ,
Dinarchus, Hipparchus (in part), Clemens Alexandrinus, and Porphyrius
De
Abstinentia, and thirty-eight books of readings (
Variae Lectiones). See
his life by Bandini
(Florence, 1758); and Creuzer,
Opuscula, pp.
21-36.