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LEONE [See also:LEO ALLATIUS] See also:ALLACCI (1586-1669) , See also:Greek See also:scholar and theologian, was See also:born in the See also:island of See also:Chios . His See also:early years were passed in See also:Calabria and at See also:Rome, where he finally settled as teacher of Greek at the Greek See also:college, at the same See also:time devoting himself to the study of See also:classics and See also:theology . In 1622, after the See also:capture of See also:Heidelberg by See also:Tilly, the elector See also:Maximilian of See also:Bavaria presented its splendid library composed of 196 cases of See also:MSS . (bibliotheca Palatina) to See also:Pope See also:Gregory XV . See also:Allacci was sent to superintend its removal to Rome, where it was incorporated with the Vatican library . On the See also:death of Gregory, Allacci became librarian to See also:Cardinal Berberini, and subsequently (1661) librarian of the Vatican, which See also:post he held till his death on the 18th (or 19th) of See also:January 1669 . It is noteworthy that, although a Greek by See also:birth, he became an ardent See also:Roman See also:Catholic and the See also:bitter enemy of all heretics, including his own countrymen . Allacci was a very industrious and voluminous writer, but his See also:works, although they See also:bear ample testimony to his immense learning, show an See also:absence of the true See also:critical See also:faculty, and are full of intolerance, especially on religious subjects . For a See also:list of these, J . A . See also:Fabricius's Bibliotheca Graeca (xi . 437) should be consulted, where they are divided into four classes: See also:editions, See also:translations and commentaries on See also:ancient authors; works See also:relating to the dogmas and institutions of the Greek and Roman Churches; See also:historical works; See also:miscellaneous' works . The number of his unpublished writings is also very large; the See also:majority of them are included in the MSS. of the Vallicellian library . The See also:main source of our knowledge of Allatius is the incomplete See also:life by Stephanus Gradi, Leonis Allatii vita, published by Cardinal See also:Mai, in Nova Bibliotheca Patrum . A See also:complete enumeration of his works. is contained in E . Legrand, Bibliographie hellenique du X VIe1"e siecle (See also:Paris, 1895, iii . 435-471) . The accounts of C . N . Sathas in NeoeAAnvcro) ctcXoXoyia (See also:Athens, 1868), and of the pseudo-See also:prince See also:Demetrius Rhodokanakis, Leonis Allatii Hellas (Athens, 1872), are inaccurate and untrustworthy . For a See also:special See also:account of his See also:share in the See also:foundation of the Vatican Library, see Curzio Mazzi, Leone Allacci e la Palatina di Heidelberg (See also:Bologna, 1893) . The theological aspect of his works is best treated by the Assumptionist See also:Father L . See also:Petit in A . Vacant's Dictionnaire de theologie (Paris, 1900, cols . 830-833) . |
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