Angelo Calogerà, also known as Domenico Demetrio Calogerà, (,

Padua Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 20 ...

— 29 September 1766,

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) was an Italian Benedictine monk and writer, active in popularizing literature and science.

Life

Angelo was born Domenico Demetrio Calogerà circa September 7, 1696, in

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, to Don Liberale Calogerà of

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and Giustina Labarvellon. His father was a member of the aristocratic Calogerà family and had distinguished himself in the

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against the

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in the 1570s; eventually, he settled in Padua, held several administrative posts there, and finally moved to Venice and gained Venetian citizenship. In 1716 Angelo became a

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monk, initially as librarian of the San Michele di Murano and later as prior of

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. In 1728, at the peak of

Antonio Vallisneri Antonio Vallisneri (3 May 1661 – 18 January 1730), also rendered as ''Antonio Vallisnieri'', was an Italian medical scientist, physician and naturalist. Life Vallisneri was born in Trassilico, a small village in Garfagnana, and graduated in ...

's renown, Calogerà began publishing ''Raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filologici'', followed in 1755 by ''Nuova raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filologici'', which continued until its forty-second volume in 1787. In the first volume, after explicitly recognizing the value of modern culture, he published the ''Progetto ai letterati d'Italia per iscrivere le loro vite'' by Giovanni Artico, count of Porcìa, followed by a biography, ''Vita di

Giambattista Vico Giambattista Vico (born Giovan Battista Vico ; ; 23 June 1668 – 23 January 1744) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationali ...

scritta da sé medesimo'', and then (in the second volume) an autobiography of

Pier Jacopo Martello Pier or Pietro Jacopo Martello (28 April 1665, in Bologna – 10 May 1727, in Bologna) was an Italian poet, playwright and dramatic theorist. Biography Martello enjoyed a thorough education in grammar and rhetoric under the Jesuits; later he ...

. In 1762 he founded,together with father Giacomo Rebellini, the literary journal ''Minerva ossia Nuovo giornale dei letterati d'Italia'', which ran until 1767 in opposition to the '' Frusta letteraria'' of

Giuseppe Baretti Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (24 April 1719, Turin, Piedmont – 5 May 1789, London) was an Italian literary critic, poet, writer, translator, linguist and author of two influential language-translation dictionaries. During his years in England ...

. Calogerà also wrote ''Memorie intorno alla vita di M. Luca De Renaldis vescovo di Trieste consigliere intimo dell'imperadore Massimiliano I e suo ambasciatore a molte corti sovrane d'Europa'' (1753).Venezia, appresso Modesto Fenzo, 1753. Fonte: Opac SBN. Catalogo del servizio bibliotecario nazionale. He died in Venice on 29 September 1766.

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