Girolamo Amati
Girolamo Amati (born June 13, 1768 in Savignano di Romagna , † April 15, 1834 in Rome ) was an Italian classical philologist, Graecist, epigraphist, paleographer and manuscriptist.
Life
Girolamo Amati was born in 1768 as the son of the linguist Pasquale Amati (1726–1796) in Savignano di Romagna. He studied Latin and Greek and was appointed Librarian of the Vaticana , where he primarily tried to sift through and catalog Greek scriptures. He continued the work of Leone Allacci , who had already created three volumes, whereby he had to reconstruct the third volume that had been lost.
In 1820 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
Works
- Iscrizione dei re Tolomei di Egitto, Giornale Arcadico Vol.XLI
- "Processus contra Valdenses in Lombardia Superiori, anno 1387", Archivio Storico Italiano 3/1, 1865
- De Vita Josephi Garampi cardinalis commentarius Hieronymi Amatii Sabinianensis, 1796
literature
- Ottavio Bucarelli: Art. Girolamo Amati sen . In: Stefan Heid , Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , vol. 1, p. 72 f.
- Armando Petrucci : Amati, Girolamo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 2: Albicante – Ammannati. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960.
- Gabriella Bevilacqua: Antiche Iscrizioni Augurali E Magiche Dai Codici Di Girolamo Amati: antiquaria, collezionismo, codici antichi, Opuscula epigraphica 1991, ISBN 88-7140-037-2
Web links
- Standard entry in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale (SBN)
- Publications by Girolamo Amati in the Opac des SBN
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carmela Vircillio Franklin: “Pro communi doctorum virorum comodo”: The Vatican Library and Its Service to Scholarship, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 146, no. 4, December 2002, p. 380, footnote 64
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amati, Girolamo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian classical philologist, Graecist, epigraphist, paleographer and manuscript scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Savignano di Romagna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1834 |
| Place of death | Rome |