Works
A former pupil of Giulio Bartolocci, who was a member of the same order and projector of the Bibliotheca magna rabbinica, Imbonati eventually became his master's collaborator. When Bartolocci died he completed and edited the fourth volume (Rome 1693) of this work, which laid the foundation for Johann Christoph Wolf's Bibliotheca hebræa and other works. Imbonati brought out a supplementary fifth volume under the title Bibliotheca latino-hebraica, sive de Scriptoribus latinis, qui ex diversis nationibus contra Judaeos vel de re hebraica utcumque scripsere (Rome, 1694). This volume also contains a "Chronology of Sacred Scripture" and two dissertations (on the Messiah, and on the Divinity and Humanity of Christ) based upon miscellaneous Hebrew, Greek, and Latin writings.
Imbonati's Chronicon Tragicum, sive de eventibus tragicis Principum (Rome, 1696) was a didactic work. The dedicatory letter, prefixed to this work and addressed to Cardinal Coelestinus Sfondratus, O.S.B., is dated from San Bernardo alle Terme, the monastery in the Baths of Diocletian, 1 April 1696. This is the latest date known concerning Imbonati.
Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, O.S.B. was a French Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint Maur. He was an astute scholar who founded the discipline of palaeography, as well as being an editor of works of the Fathers of the Church. He is regarded as one of the founders of the modern discipline of archaeology.
Biblia Hebraica refers primarily to the three editions of the Hebrew Bible edited by Rudolf Kittel. When referenced, Kittel's Biblia Hebraica is usually abbreviated BH, or BHK (K for Kittel). When specific editions are referred to, BH1, BH2 and BH3 are used. Biblia Hebraica is a Latin phrase meaning Hebrew Bible, traditionally used as a title for printed editions of the Tanakh. Less commonly, Biblia Hebraica may also refer to subsequent editions in the Biblia Hebraica series which build on the work of Kittel's editions.
Johannes Buxtorf was a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis". His massive tome, De Synagoga Judaica, scrupulously documents the customs and society of German Jewry in the early modern period.
Ferdinando Ughelli was an Italian Cistercian monk and church historian. He is best known for his monumental Italia sacra, a massive nine-volume treatise detailing the history of all Italian dioceses from the earliest Christian centuries to his day.
Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi was an Italian scholar and abbot of the Basilian monastery of Grottaferrata near Rome.
Giulio Bartolocci was an Italian Cistercian Hebrew scholar and author of the four-volume Bibliotheca Magna Rabbinica.
Giovanni Giuda Giona Battista was a convert from Judaism to Catholicism and agent for the king of Poland. His original name was Jehuda Jona Ben-Isaac.
Andreas Schott was an academic, linguist, translator, editor and a Jesuit priest from Antwerp in the Habsburg Netherlands. He was mainly known for his editions of Latin and Greek classical literature.
Constantino Cajetan was a Benedictine scholar.
Anselmo Banduri was a Dalmatian Italian, Benedictine scholar, archaeologist and numismatologist from the Republic of Ragusa.
Giovanni BaptistaFerrari, was an Italian Jesuit, orientalist, university teacher and botanist. Linguistically highly gifted and an able scientist, at 21 years of age Ferrari knew a good deal of Hebrew and spoke and wrote excellent Greek and Latin. He became a professor of Hebrew and Rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome and in 1622 edited a Syriac-Latin dictionary.
Luigi Gaetano Marini was an Italian natural philosopher, jurist, historian, archaeologist and epigraphist.
Bibliotheca universalis (1545–1549) was the first truly comprehensive "universal" listing of all the books of the first century of printing. It was an alphabetical bibliography that listed all the known books printed in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew. It listed 10,000 titles by 1,800 authors.
Giuseppe Ripamonti was an Italian Catholic priest and historian. Ripamonti was a prolific writer, to the extent that he can be considered as the most important Milanese writer of the first half of the seventeenth century, alongside Federico Borromeo.
Carlo Maria Maggi was an Italian scholar, writer and poet. Despite being an Accademia della Crusca affiliate, he gained his fame as an author of "dialectal" works in Milanese language, for which he is considered the father of Milanese literature. Maggi's work was a major inspiration source for later Milanese scholars such as Carlo Porta and Giuseppe Parini.
Domenico Gerosolimitano, originally Rabbi Samuel Vivas of Jerusalem, was a notable ecclesiastical censor of Hebrew books. His Sefer Hazikkuk, the Hebrew equivalent of Index Expurgatorius, played an important role in the censorship of Hebrew books in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
The College of the Neophytes, in Italian Collegio dei Neofiti was a Roman Catholic college in Rome founded in 1577 by Gregory XIII for education of young men, in an institution for converts from Judaism and Islam that itself been started in 1543 by Pope Paul III. Neophyte in this context generally means converts from Judaism, and neofito was often appended to Italian surnames to indicate a convert. From 1634 the College was adjacent to the church of Santa Maria ai Monti.
Benedetto Bacchini was an Italian Benedictine monk and scholar.
Alessandro De Angelis joined the Society of Jesus in 1581, at the age of 22. He devoted himself to teaching at the Collegio Romano, reaching the highest level of the academic body between 1612 and 1617, in the period of the first dispute between Galileo Galilei and the Roman Church.
Vito Maria Amico was an Italian monk, historian and writer. He is most notable for the last work published in his lifetime, Lexicon topographicum Siculum..., a topographical dictionary of Sicily published between 1757 and 1760, describing its history, settlements and best-known families, monuments and churches.
