José Petisco

José Miguel Petisco, (Ledesma, Salamanca, September 28, 1724 - id., January 27, 1800), Spanish Jesuit and Hellenist. Biography

He entered the Society of Jesus through the novitiate of Villagarcía. He was ordained priest and after his third probation he made his fourth vow in 1758. He traveled to Lyon, where he deepened for two years in the study of Greek and Hebrew. He then taught Greek and Hebrew language at the Jesuit college of Villagarcía and dogmatic theology and interpretation of Sacred Scripture at the Jesuit college of Salamanca and, when his order was expelled in 1767, he marched to Corsica and then to Bologna where he taught Holy Scriptures, until the pontifical suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773. It was then established in Bologna and after the translation into Italian of the Vulgate by Antonio Martini of the short pontifical addressed to him and the new provisions of the Spanish Inquisition of 1782, begins to translate the Vulgate to Castilian in 1786; returns to Spain with the text almost finished in 1798, and dies on January 27, 1800.

He also translated works of Cicero and produced a Greek grammar; it is said that he also translated the Commentaries of Julius Caesar, but this translation came under the name of the presbyter José Goya and Muniain (Madrid, 1798). Something similar is said of his translation of the Bible, which also appeared under the name of Felix Torres Amat. According to Francisco Lafarga, he is also owed a translation of Jean Racine's Esther under the title Triumphant Innocence. Works

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