Giovanni Lami

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Giovanni Lami, portrayed by Giuseppe Allegrini, (1773)
Giovanni Lami ( frontispiece in the Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum , 1756; detail)

Giovanni Lami , also: Joannes or Johannes Lamius (born November 8, 1697 in Santa Croce sull'Arno , † February 6, 1770 in Florence ), was an Italian legal scholar, philologist and librarian. He published works on church history and, as director of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, cataloged its holdings.

Life

Giovanni Lami was born in 1697 into a family of wealthy merchants and landowners. His father had passed the medical exam in Pisa in 1683 . In 1715 Giovanni Lami began studying law at the University of Pisa , which he completed in 1719. Inspired by the extensive library of Professor Lazzaro Benedetto Migliorucci, Lami turned to the study of history, philosophy and Greek. In 1728 he took a job as a librarian with Gian Luca Pallavicini in Genoa . He traveled to Paris and after his return via the Netherlands in 1732 settled in Florence, where in 1736 he took up the position of librarian for the Riccardi family, who had been collecting valuable books and codes since the end of the 16th century . In 1740 Giovanni Lami was appointed sole director of the Riccardiana collection and held the position until his death. From 1733 he also worked as a teacher of church history at the university and as an advisor to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gian Gastone de 'Medici . Giovanni Lami died on February 6, 1770 alone in his Florentine house; the news of his death is received in a letter. In 1772 a tomb was erected for him in the south aisle of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence.

Act

Tomb of Giovanni Lami in Santa Croce, Florence by Innocenzo Spinazzi

Giovanni Lami showed himself not only to be learned in his publications, but also not averse to controversies in which theological dogmas were disputed. He published occasionally under the pseudonyms Charito [n] , Cesellio Filomastige and [M.] Thymoleon . His achievements, already recognized in medals and likenesses during his lifetime , since he was co-opted into the Accademia della Crusca in 1737 , consisted in his records of the Riccardiana , such as the creation of an index of the manuscripts belonging to the collection in 1756, and philological editions. Among other things, he obtained an edition of the works of the Dutch philologist Johannes van Meurs (1579–1639) and published an unpublished collection of pamphlets ( Delicae eruditorum ) in Florence between 1736 and 1769 . Lami published Lezioni di antichità toscane ( Lessons from Tuscan antiquity , Florence 1766) and contributed to Florentine cultural life with a magazine Novelle letterarie .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jöcher (1810), column 1106.
  2. ^ Paoli (2004).
  3. ↑ Giovanni Lami tomb , at Europeana
  4. ^ Giovanni Lami: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Riccardiana adservantur . Liburni, ex typographio Antonii Sanctinii & sociorum, 1756. Online at Google Books , online at MDZ .
  5. ↑ Itinerari lorenesi in Toscana ( Memento of February 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Lami, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joannes, Giovanni; Lamius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian legal scholar, philologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Croce sull'Arno
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1770
Place of death Florence