Giacomo Filippo Tomasini (17 November 1595 – 13 June 1655) was an Italian

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, scholar and historian.

Biography

Giacomo Filippo Tomasini was born at Padua, Nov. 17, 1595. Instructed by Benedetto Benedetti of Legnano, he joined the Venetian order of secular

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when he was fourteen, and received the degree of

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in 1619. He went to Rome, where he was cordially received, especially by

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, who would have appointed him to a bishopric in the island of Candia. At his own request, this was exchanged for the see of Cittanova d'Istria, to which he was consecrated in 1642. There he remained until his death, in 1654. Tomasini was a close friend and main collaborator of the Greek scholar

Leone Allacci Leo Allatius (Greek: Λέων Αλλάτιος, ''Leon Allatios'', Λιωνής Αλάτζης, ''Lionis Allatzis''; Italian: ''Leone Allacci, Allacio''; Latin: ''Leo Allatius, Allacius''; c. 1586 – January 19, 1669) was a Greek scholar, theolog ...

. Their correspondence indicates that they had started exchanging scholarly materials in the early 1630s, and rapidly became on very good terms. For the next twenty years, Tomasini acted as Allacci's main contact with antiquarian circles in

and

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. Allacci sent Tomasini information about

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s in the Vatican for the ''Petrarcha redivivus'' which appeared in 1635. In 1644 Tomasini saw through the presses the ''Romanae aedificationes'', the work Allacci had compiled many years earlier about his first patron

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's administration of public works in Rome under

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Works

A prolific scholar, Tomasini is especially known for his critical editions of the letters of

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(1636) and

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(1640), and for several works on archaeology, most notably his ''De Donariis ac Tabellis Votivis'', a learned work on the

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of the ancients. His works include: *''Illustrium Virorum Elogia Iconibus Exornata'' (Padua, 1630, 4º; 2nd vol. 1644) *''Titus Livius Patavinus'' (ibid. 1630, 4º; ''Titi Livii Historiarum libri'', ed.

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, v. 7, 1746, p. 4; v. 15, pt. 1, 1828, p. 8) *''Manus aeneae, Cecropii votum referentis, dilucidatio'' (Padua, 1649, 4º;

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, ''Thes. Gr. antiq.'' v. 10, p. 657) *''De Donariis ac Tabellis Votivis,'' etc. (Utin. 1639, 4º;

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, ''Thes. antiq. Rom.'' v. 12, p. 737) *''Vita, bibliotheca, et museum Laurentii Pignorii'' (Venice, 1632, 4º; Graevius, ''Thes. antiq. Ital.'' v. 6, pt. 3) *''De tesseris hospitalitatis'', (Padua, 1647, 4º; Gronovius, ''Thes. Gr. antiq.'' v. 9, p. 213) *''Petrarcha Redivivus Integram Poetae Celeberrimi Vitam Iconibus Ære Celatis Exhibens'' (ibid. 1635, 4º) * * *''Bibliothecae Patavinae Manuscripta,'' etc. (ibid. 1639, 4º) *''Bibliothecae Venetae Manuscripta,'' etc. (Utin. 1650, 4º). *''iarchive:wotb_6743671, Vita della B. Beatrice della famiglia de prencipi d'Este il di cui corpo da quattrocento, e settanta due anni in circa intiero ancora si conserua nella chiesa interiore del venerando Monasterio di S. Sofia nella città di Padoua già descritta da monsig. Giacomo Filippo Tomasini, et hora nouamente ristampata ad istanza della reuerendissima madre abbadessa suor Quieta Ottata nobile padouana, et di tutte le madri del sudetto monasterio, et dalla medeme dedicata all'eminentissimo, Gregorio cardinale Barbarigo'', In Udine : per Nicolo Schiratti, 1652

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