Enrico Narducci (12 November 1832 – 11 April 1893) was an Italian

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and paleographer.

Biography

Enrico Narducci was born on November 12, 1832, in

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. He studied at the Roman College and, in 1848, he became an

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officer of the

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. His cousin Paolo was one of the first to be injured during the French attack of April 30, 1849. After the reinstallment of the papal government, he came into contact with

Baldassarre Boncompagni Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi (10 May 1821 – 13 April 1894), was an Italian historian of mathematics and aristocrat. Biography Boncompagni was born in Rome, into an ancient noble and wealthy Roman family, the Ludovisi-Boncompagni, ...

, a Roman prince,

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and historian of science, who entrusted him with the care of his library and introduced him to the study of

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. In the 1860s, he published in the monthly review ''Il Buonarroti'' the ''Discorso del modo di formare un catalogo universale delle biblioteche d'Italia''. In 1867, Narducci published the work "Giunte all'opera ''Gli scrittori d'Italia''" (letters A and B l) by Count

Giammaria Mazzucchelli Count Giammaria Mazzuchelli (or Giovanni Maria Mazzucchelli) (28 November 1707 – 19 November 1765) was an Italian writer, bibliographer and historian. Biography Mazzuchelli was the son of Count Federico Mazzuchelli ( it., Brescia, 1671–174 ...

. After the end of the papal government, he was entrusted with the management of the libraries of Rome. He proposed that all the Italian state libraries should have had a combined catalogue. To prove its possibility he compiled an article on Boccaccio, and showed at one view all the editions of that writer and the place where they are to be found. Narducci was also known as an editor of medieval philosophical writings. In 1859 he published the ''

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'' of the treatise of

Restoro d'Arezzo Ristoro or Restoro d'Arezzo was an Italian monk and scientist of the Middle Ages. Italian scholar Enrico Narducci calls him the ' Humboldt' of the thirteenth century. Life and works Restoro was born in Arezzo, Tuscany, at an unknown date in the ...

''La composizione del mondo colle sue cascioni''. In 1884 he published an edition of the first two parts of the ''Tractatus sphere'' of Bartholomew of Parma from the manuscript, Rome, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele (now Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale), Santa Croce, no. 228. He died in Rome on April 11, 1893. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, of the Italian Geographical Society and of the

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of Padua.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Narducci, Enrico Italian librarians Italian non-fiction writers 1832 births 1893 deaths Curators from Rome Italian bibliographers Academics from Rome