Carlo Giuseppe Imbonati

Carlo Giuseppe Imbonati

Carlo Giuseppe Imbonati ( Imbonatus ) was a Cistercian monk , abbot and scholar who worked in the second half of the 17th century. He was an orientalist , biographer and theologian .

Life

Imbonati was born in Milan . He taught theology and Hebrew in Rome. The date of his death is uncertain. The last references to him date from 1696.

Works

Imbonati was a student and collaborator of the Cistercian Giulio Bartolocci , the editor of the Bibliotheca magna rabbinica . After Bartolocci's death, Imbonati completed the fourth volume of the Biblioteca, which he published in Rome in 1693. This work served as the basis for Johann Christoph Wolf's Bibliotheca hebræa and other works. Imbonati was also the editor of a fifth supplementary volume with the title Bibliotheca latino-hebraica, sive de Scriptoribus latinis, qui ex diversis nationibus contra Judaeos vel de re hebraica utcumque scripsere (Rome, 1694). This volume also contains a “Chronology of the Holy Scriptures” as well as treatises on the Messiah and on the divine and human nature of Christ, based on various Hebrew, Greek and Latin scriptures. Imbonatis Chronicon Tragicum, sive de eventibus tragicis Principum (Rome, 1696) was a text dedicated to Cardinal Coelestin Sfondrati O.SB. The dedication letter preceding the work is addressed to San Bernardo alle Terme , the Cistercian monastery in the Baths of Diocletian in Rome, and is dated April 1, 1696. No evidence of imbonati is known after this date.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert John Wilkinson: Tetragrammaton: Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God. From the Beginnings to the Seventeenth Century , Brill, Leiden 2015, p. 312.
2. ↑ Francesca Bregoli: Mediterranean Enlightenment. Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform , Stanford University Press, 2014, pp. 85f.
3. ↑ digitized version
4. ↑ digitized version