Ludovico Jacobilli ("Ludovicus Jacobillus" in
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
) was an Italian hagiographer and historian, a priest at
Foligno. Jacobilli was born in Rome in 1598 into an illustrious family of Foligno and died in 1664. His work was mainly concerned with the saints and cities of Umbria.
In 1662 he donated over 5,000 books from his personal library to the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Foligno
The Diocese of Foligno ( la, Dioecesis Fulginatensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Umbria, Italy. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Pe ...
to enhance the seminary library there. When he died, more than 3,500 books were added to that number. Today the library still bears his name.
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1598 births
1664 deaths
Christian hagiographers
17th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
17th-century Italian historians
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