Giulio Lorenzo Selvaggio (b.

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 ...

, 10 August 1728; d. Naples, November, 1772) was a canonist and archaeologist. He entered the

seminary A seminary, school of theology, theological seminary, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (sometimes called ''seminarians'') in scripture, theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as clergy ...

of Naples in 1744, and was ordained priest in 1752. He subsequently devoted himself to the study of history, philosophy, and the Oriental languages. He became censor of books and synodal examiner for the

archdiocese of Naples The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naples ( it, Arcidiocesi di Napoli; la, Archidioecesis Neapolitana) is a Roman Catholic Archdiocese in southern Italy, the see being in Naples. A Christian community was founded there in the 1st century AD a ...

, and wrote the notes for the Italian edition of the ecclesiastical history of the

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historian, Johann Lorenz Mosheim. Appointed professor of

canon law Canon law (from grc, κανών, , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is th ...

in 1764, he published ''Institutionum canonicarum libri tres'' (

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, 1770) and conferences in civil law, interesting from the standpoint of contemporary Neapolitan law. Thomas Maria Mamachi's work on Christian antiquities being unfinished, Selvaggio resolved to deal with the same subject in a smaller work, but he died before finishing it. His friend, Canon Kalephati, continued the publication of the ''Antiquitatum ecclesiasticarum institutiones'' (6 vols., Naples, 1772-6), prefacing them with a biography of the author: ''Commentarius de vita et scriptis J. L. Selvagii''.

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;Attribution *. Cites: **HURTER, Nomenclator, III (Innsbruck, 1895), 172-4. Italian archaeologists 1728 births 1772 deaths {{archaeologist-stub