Carlo Malagola (5 August 1855, in Ravenna – 23 October 1910, in

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) was a 19th-century

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. Among others, he studied the archives of

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, and the life of

Antonio Urceo Antonio Urceo, called Codro (''Antonius Urceus Codrus'', 1446, Rubiera–1500, Bologna) was an Italian humanist who taught grammar and eloquence in Bologna (where Nicolaus Copernicus was among his students). He studied in Modena under the poet an ...

(''Antonius Urceus''), called ''Codro'' (1446–1500), who had taught Greek to

Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated ...

. Malagola discovered that according to the note ''Dominus Nicolaus Kopperlingk de Thorn - IX grossetos'' the young Prussian had enrolled in the ''Acta nationis Germanorum'' at

in 1496 for the fee of 9

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. Malagola also revealed that the librarian

Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli ( el, Νικόλαος Κομνηνός Παπαδόπουλος, ''Nikólaos Komninós Papadópoulos''; 6 January 1655 on Crete – 20 January 1740 in Padua) was an Italian lawyer and historian of Greek origin. Li ...

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had falsely claimed in 1726 that he had seen an entry of Copernicus in records of a "Polish nation" at the university. In the century that had passed since, this claim had been widely published and ''"found a place in all subsequent biographies of Copernicus, but the decorative particulars added by the historian of the Patavian university have been shown to be wholly incorrect"'' and ''utterly baseless.''''As for the assertion that Copernicus was registered as a Pole at Padua, that was investigated, at the instance of Prince Boncompagni, by Favaro, and found utterly baseless. On the other hand, Carlo Malagola, in his admirable work on Urceo Codro showed that "Niccolo Kopperlingk di Thorn" had registered as a law student at Bologna in the album of the "Nazione Alemanna". This may not prove much, but it is, at least, not an invention.'' - Charles Sanders Peirce, Kenneth Laine Ketner, James E. Cook: ''Contributions to the Nation'', Published 1982, Texas Tech University Press, 202 pages ( paper hardbound

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Works

*Carlo Malagola, Mauro Sarti, Mauro Fattorini, Cesare Albicini: ''De claris Archigymnasii bononiensis professoribus a saeculo XI usque ad ...'' (Ex officina regiafratrum Merlani, 1896) *Carlo Malagola: ''Della vita e delle opere di Antonio Urceo detto Codro: studi e ricerche'' (Fava e Garagnani, 1878) *at openlibrary.or

*at archive.or

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Malagola, Carlo 1855 births 1910 deaths 19th-century Italian historians Writers from Ravenna