Giovanni Evangelista Di Blasi (25 July 1721 – 1812) was an Italian

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monk, philosopher, historian and writer. Born in

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

, he began studying in the monastery of San Martino in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, then studied in the college of Sant'Anselmo in Rome, and finally studied physics in Florence. He taught philosophy at San Severino Monastery in Naples. He was the brother of the librarian and historian

Salvatore Maria Di Blasi Salvatore Maria Di Blasi (26 December 1719 – 28 April 1814) was an Italian Benedictine monk, scholar, and librarian. Biography He was born in Palermo to an aristocratic family. His brother was the erudite Giovanni Evangelista di Blasi. Salvato ...

.Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 1, compiled by Gioacchino Maria Olivier-Poli, Naples (1824); page 327-328.

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