Isidoro Carini (7 January 1843, in

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– 25 January 1895, in

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) was an Italian religious, teacher, historian and palaeographer.

Biography

He attended the Jesuit college of Palermo and wanted to enter that Order, but was hindered by his father Giacinto Carini, who had participated, as battalion leader, in the action of the Thousand in Sicily, being wounded in Palermo. Pia Carini, Isidoro's younger sister, married the archaeologist

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and Alfonso's sister, Maria, married Alfonso Battelli:

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, paleographer and historian, was born from the marriage. Isidoro Carini was trained in the Congregation of the oratory. In 1865 he founded the weekly ''L'Amico della religione'', which ceased after the popular uprisings of Palermo in September 1866. In 1868 he was ordained a priest and in the same year he founded the weekly ''Ape iblea''. The following year he founded the bi-weekly ''La Sicilia Cattolica'', which absorbed the previous one. In 1874 he was among the founders of the Sicilian Society for Homeland History. In 1876 he was appointed professor of paleography at the

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. He devoted himself to the edition of the Greek and Arab diplomas, present in the Sicilian archives. He was the first to be a lecturer in the

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- as the Vatican School of diplomatic and archival paleography was then called - established by

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, at the

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, with ''motu proprio'' of 19 May 1884. His appointment was as sub archivist of the Holy See and consultant of the

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. In 1888, Isidoro Carini founded the Roman Society for Biblical Studies. In 1890, he was appointed by Pope Leo XIII as "first custodian" of the

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. On 26 January 1893 he became a member of the

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Isidoro Carini
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