GIUSEPPE CASPAR See also:

• GIUSEPPE CASPAR MEZZOFANTI (1774-1849)

MEZZOFANTI (1774-1849)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian See also:

• CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

cardinal and linguist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 17th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1774, at See also:

• BOLOGNA
• BOLOGNA, GIOVANNI DA (1524–1608)

Bologna, and educated there . He was ordained See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest in 1797, and in the same See also:

• YEAR

year became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Arabic in the university, but shortly afterwards was deprived for refusing to take the See also:

• OATH (0. Eng. ddh)

oath of See also:

• ALLEGIANCE (Mid. Eng. ligeaunce; med. Lat. ligeantia, &c.; the al- was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an allegation; the Fr. allegeance comes from the English; the word is formed from " liege," of which the derivatio

allegiance to the Cisalpine See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic . In 1803 he was appointed assistant librarian of the See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

institute of Bologna, and soon afterwards was reinstated as professor of See also:

• ORIENTAL

oriental See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages and of See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek . The See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair was suppressed by the See also:

• VICEROY (from O. Fr. viceroy, mod. viceroi, i.e. Lat. vice, in place of, and roy or roi, king)

viceroy in 18o8, but again rehabilitated on the restoration of See also:

• PIUS

Pius VII. in 1814, and continued to be held by See also:

• MEZZOFANTI, GIUSEPPE CASPAR (1774-1849)

Mezzofanti until his removal from Bologna to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome in 1831, as a member of the See also:

• CONGREGATION (Lat. congregatio, a gathering together, from cum, with, grex, gregis, a flock, herd)

congregation de propaganda fide . In 1833 he succeeded Angelo See also:

• MAI, ANGELO (1782—1854)

Mai as See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief keeper of the Vatican library, and in 1838 was made cardinal and director of studies in the Congregation . He died at Rome on the 15th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1849 . His See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent, comparable in many respects to that of the so-called " calculating boys," was not combined with any exceptional measure of intellectual See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, and produced nothing of permanent value . It seems certain, however, that he spoke with considerable fluency, and in some cases even with See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

• DIALECTIC, or DIALECTICS

dialectic peculiarities, some fifty or sixty languages of the most widely separated families, besides having a less perfect acquaintance with many others . See See also:

• RUSSELL (FAMILY)
• RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
• RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
• RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
• RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
• RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
• RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
• RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
• RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
• RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )

Russell, See also:

• LIFE

Life of the Cardinal Mezzofanti (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1857); A . Bellesheim, Giuseppe Cardinal Mezzof See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti (See also:

• WURZBURG

Wurzburg, 1880) .