Carlo Giuseppe Imbonati ("Imbonatus") was a

Cistercian The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...

scholar who was active during the last half of the 17th century. He spent much of his career in Rome and rose to the title of abbot. He was a

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and a

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scholar who wrote prolifically in his fields. The last known references to the man are dated in 1696.

Life

He was born at

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

. He occupied the chairs of theology and Hebrew in Rome and was raised to the dignity of abbot.

Works

A former pupil of

Giulio Bartolocci Giulio Bartolocci (1 April 1613 – 19 October 1687) was an Italian Cistercian Hebrew scholar and author of the four volume ''Bibliotheca Magna Rabbinica.'' Life He was born at Celleno and became the a pupil of a baptized Jew, Giovanni Battista ...

, who was a member of the same order and projector of the ''Bibliotheca magna rabbinica'', Imbonati eventually became his master's collaborator. When Bartolocci died he completed and edited the fourth volume (Rome 1693) of this work, which laid the foundation for

Johann Christoph Wolf Johann Christoph Wolf (born at Wernigerode, February 21 1683; died at Hamburg, July 25 1739) was a German Christian Hebraist, polyhistor, and collector of books. He studied at Wittenberg, and traveled in Holland and England in the intere ...

's ''Bibliotheca hebræa'' and other works. Imbonati brought out a supplementary fifth volume under the title ''Bibliotheca latino-hebraica, sive de Scriptoribus latinis, qui ex diversis nationibus contra Judaeos vel de re hebraica utcumque scripsere'' (Rome, 1694). This volume also contains a "Chronology of Sacred Scripture" and two dissertations (on the

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, and on the ''Divinity and Humanity of Christ'') based upon miscellaneous Hebrew, Greek, and Latin writings. Imbonati's ''Chronicon Tragicum, sive de eventibus tragicis Principum'' (Rome, 1696) was a didactic work. The dedicatory letter, prefixed to this work and addressed to Cardinal Coelestinus Sfondratus, O.S.B., is dated from San Bernardo alle Terme, the monastery in the Baths of Diocletian, 1 April 1696. This is the latest date known concerning Imbonati.

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