Also 8 litterato. [It. litterato, ad. L. litterātus.] One of the literati; a man of letters or erudition; a learned man. Cf. LITERATUS.
1704. N. N., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., I. 91. Every Literato is proud of the Honour of his [Bacon’s] Company.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 53, ¶ 9. Some may think we descend from our Imperial Dignity, in holding Correspondence with a private Litterato [v.r. Litterati].
1789[?]. Cowper, Lett. to W. Bagot, Wks. 1836, VI. 266. A folio edition of the Iliad, published … at Venice, by a literato, who calls himself Villoison.
1851. R. F. Burton, Goa, 100. You cannot boast of ever having produced a single eminent literato.
