Giovanni Luigi or Giovanni Aloysius Mingarelli (1722-1791) was an Italian scholar in the Greek language, who translated Greek and Coptic religious texts, including the Bible. One of his translations was ''Ægyptiorum Codicum Reliquiæ Venetiis In Bibliotheca Naniana Asservatæ'', describing a text in the library of

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. Mingarelli was born in

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, but taught Greek at the

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in Rome.

Works

* ''Veterum Patrum latinorum opuscula nunquam antehac edita'', Bologna, 1751. * ''Anecdotorum fasciculus, sive S. Paulini Nolani, Anonymi scriptoris, Alani magni ac Theophylacti opuscula aliquot, nunc primum edita'', etc., Rome, 1766. * ''Epistola'' IV° ''sæculo conficta et a Basilio Magno sæpius commemorata'', etc., in ''Nuova raccolta Calogerana'', vol. 33. * ''Sopra un’opera inedita d’un antico teologo, Lettera'', etc., Venice, 1763. * ''Græci codices manuscripti apud Nanios patricios Venetos asservati'', Bologna, 1784. * ''Ægyptiorum codicum reliquiæ Venetiis in Bibliotheca Naniana asservatæ'', ibid., 1785, 2 voll.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mingarelli, Giovanni Luigi 1722 births 1791 deaths 18th-century Italian writers 18th-century Italian male writers Italian philologists