Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi (18 August 1740 – 21 January 1792) was a distinguished Italian
philologist
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who flourished during the latter half of the eighteenth century.
He was superintendent of the press connected with the
Propaganda college
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at
Rome
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, professor of Greek at the
University of Rome La Sapienza
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,
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". Listed by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Bibliopoly. URL accessed 2006-09-28. and was the means of giving the world several fragments of ancient authors.Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum
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'', a book on the grammar of the South Indian Malayalam
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language, published in 1772.
Main works
Dissertations
*''Dissertazione canonico-filologica sopra il titolo delle instituzioni canoniche'' De officio archidiaconi, s.e., s.i.l. 1767.
*''Donaria duo graece loquentia quorum unum in tabula argentea apud moniales Saxoferratenses S. Clarae'', s.e., Roma 1774.
*''Discorso filosofico sul fine ed utilità dell'Accademie'', per i torchi dell'Enciclopedia, Livorno 1777.
*''La filosofia alleata della religione. Discorso filosofico-politico'', per i torchi dell'Enciclopedia, Livorno 1778.
*''Discorso filosofico dell'indole della verità e delle opinioni'', dai torchj Pazzini, Siena 1786.
Correspondence
*''Ad virum clarissimum Janum Plancum archiatrum, et patricium Ariminensem epistola'', typis J. Rocchii, Lucae 1767.
*''De veteri inscriptione Ursi Togati ludi pilae vitreae inventoris epistola'', apud B. Francesium, Romae 1775.
*''Epistola ad Iohannem Baptistam Bodonium qua emendatur et suppletur commentarium de Anacreontis genere eiusque bibliotheca'', in aedibus Palatinis typis Bodonianis, Parmae 1791.
*''Il carteggio tra Amaduzzi e Corilla Olimpica 1775-1792'', a cura di L. Morelli, Leo S. Olschki, Firenze 2000.
*''Lettere familiari'', a cura di G. Donati, Accademia dei Filopatridi, Savignano sul Rubicone 2001.
*''Carteggio, 1774-1791'', a cura di M.F. Turchetti, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, Roma 2005.
Books
*''Leges novellae 5. anecdotae imperatorum Theodosii junioris et Valentiniani'', Typ. Zempelianis, Romae 1767.
''Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi, (a J. Ch. Amadutio editum)''
Sac. Cong. de Propaganda Fide, Romae 1771
''Alphabetum Hebraicum addito Samaritano et Rabbinico''
Sac. Cong. de Propag. Fide, Romae 1771
''Alphabetum veterum Etruscorum et nonnulla eorundem monumenta''
Sac. Cong. de Propaganda Fide, Romae 1771
*''Alphabetum Graecum'', Sac. Cong. de Propag. Fide, Romae 1771.
''Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum'', Sac. Cong. de Propaganda Fide, Romae 1772''Alphabetum Tangutanum sive Tibetanum''
Sac. Cong. de Propaganda Fide, Romae 1773
*''Anecdota litteraria ex mss. codicibus eruta'', voll. 4, apud G. Settarium, Romae 1773.
''Catalogus librorum qui ex typographio sacrae congreg. de propaganda fide variis linguis prodierunt et in eo adhuc asservantur''
Sac. Cong. de Propaganda Fide, Romae 1773.
''Alphabetum Barmanum seu Bomanum regni Avae finitimarumque regionum'', typis Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, Roma 1776
''Alphabetum Persicum''
Sac. Cong. de Propag. Fide, Romae 1783.
''Alphabetum Armenum''
Sac. Cong. De Propaganda Fide, Romae 1784.
*''Characterum ethicorum Teofrasto, Theophrasti Eresii capita duo hactenus anecdota quae ex cod. ms. Vaticano saeculi 11'', Typ. Regia, Parma
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e 1786.
''Alphabetum Aethiopicum sive Gheez et Amhharicum''
Sac. Cong. de Propaganda Fide, Romae 1789
Further reading
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*Montanari, Antonio.
. ''Riministoria''.
References
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1740 births
1792 deaths
People from Savignano sul Rubicone
Italian classical philologists
Italian Indologists