Andrea Gallandi (born at
Venice
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, 7 December 1709; died there 12 January 1779, or 1780) was an Italian
Oratorian and
patristic
Patristics or patrology is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The names derive from the combined forms of Latin ''pater'' and Greek ''patḗr'' (father). The period is generally considered to run from ...
scholar.
Life
He pursued his theological and historical studies under two
Dominicans,
Daniello Concina
Daniello Concina (20 October 1687 – 21 February 1756) was an Italian Dominican preacher, controversialist and theologian.
Biography
He was born at Clauzetto, in what is now the Province of Pordenone in Friuli.
On the completion of his early st ...
, a moralist, and
Bernardo de Rossi
Bernardo de RossiGiovanni Francesco Bernardo Maria de Rossi, De Rubeis. (8 January 1687 – 2 February 1775) was an Italian Dominican theologian and historian.
Biography
Rossi was born at Cividale del Friuli. He made his religious professio ...
(de Rubeis), a noted historical scholar and theologian. With both of these instructors he kept up a friendship after he had joined the
Oratory of St. Philip Neri
The Confederation of Oratories of Saint Philip Neri ( la, Confoederatio Oratorii Sancti Philippi Nerii) abbreviated CO and commonly known as the Oratorians is a Catholic society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men (priests and lay-b ...
.
Works
He established his reputation as a scholar by compiling the work of reference: ''Bibliotheca veterum patrum antiquorumque scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Græco-Latina'' (Venice, 1765–81, 14 vols.; 2nd ed., 1788). The work was dedicated to the
Venetian Senate
The Senate ( vec, Senato), formally the ''Consiglio dei Pregadi'' or ''Rogati'' (, la, Consilium Rogatorum), was the main deliberative and legislative body of the Republic of Venice.
Establishment
The Venetian Senate was founded in 1229, or le ...
, but Gallandi did not live to see its completion. It is a collection of 380 ecclesiastical writers of the first seven centuries. Gallandi gathered together the smaller and less known writings. Greek originals were printed in good type with Latin translations, and copious notes relative to the authors and their works were added.
He also published a collection of the treatises of famous
canonist
Canon law (from grc, κανών, , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is th ...
s (
Pierre Coustant Pierre Coustant (born at Compiègne, France, 30 April 1654; died at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, near Paris, 18 October 1721) was a French Benedictine scholar, of the Congregation of Saint-Maur.
Early life
After receiving his classical ed ...
,
Girolamo and Pietro Ballerini Girolamo and Pietro Ballerini were Italian Catholic theologians and canonists of the 18th century, brothers, who published joint works.
They were the sons of a surgeon of Verona.
Girolamo Ballerini
Girolamo was born at Verona 29 January 1701, an ...
, etc.) on the origin and development of canon law, which was entitled ''De vetustis canonum collectionibus dissertationum sylloge''(Venice, 1778, 1 vol. folio; Mainz, 1790, 2 vols.). At his death Gallandi left a work which has not been published: ''Thesaurus antiquitatis ecclesiasticæ historico-apologetico-criticus complectens SS. patrum gesta et scripta doctissimorum virorum dissertationibus asserta et illustrata ac juxta seriem XII sec. digesta''.
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1709 births
18th-century deaths
18th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians
Oratorians