Angelo Calogerà, also known as Domenico Demetrio Calogerà, (circa 7 September 1696,

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- 29 September 1766,

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) was an Italian Benedictine monk and writer, active in popularizing literature and science.

Life

Angelo was born Domenico Demetrio Calogerà circa September 7, 1696, in

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, to Don Liberale Calogerà of Corfu and Giustina Labarvellon.Cesare De Michelis
''Angelo Calogerà, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani''
vol. 16, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1973. His father was a member of the aristocratic

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and had distinguished himself in the War of Cyprus against the

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in the 1570s; eventually, he settled in Padua, held several administrative posts there, and finally moved to Venice and gained Venetian citizenship. In 1716 Angelo became a

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monk, initially as librarian of the San Michele di Murano and later as prior of

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. In 1728, at the peak of

Antonio Vallisneri Antonio Vallisneri ( Trassilico,3 May 1661 – Padua, 18 January 1730), also rendered as ''Antonio Vallisnieri'', was an Italian medical scientist, physician and naturalist. Life Vallisneri was born in Trassilico, a small village in Garfagnana, ...

's renown, Calogerà began publishing "''Raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filologici''", followed in 1755 by "''Nuova raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filologici ''", which continued until its forty-second volume in 1787. In the first volume, after explicitly recognizing the value of modern culture, he published the ''Progetto ai letterati d'Italia per iscrivere le loro vite'' by Giovanni Artico, count of Porcìa, followed by a biography, "''Vita di

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scritta da sé medesimo''", and then (in the second volume) an autobiography of Pier Jacopo Martello. In

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he and father Giacomo Rebellini founded the journal "''Minerva ossia Nuovo giornale dei letterati d'Italia''", which ran until

1767 Events January–March * January 1 – The first annual volume of '' The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris'', produced by British Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, gives navigators t ...

in opposition to the "''

Frusta letteraria Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (24 April 1719, Turin, Piedmont – 5 May 1789, London) was an Italian literary critic, poet, writer, translator, linguist and author of two influential language-translation dictionaries. During his years in England ...

''" of

Giuseppe Baretti Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (24 April 1719, Turin, Piedmont – 5 May 1789, London) was an Italian literary critic, poet, writer, translator, linguist and author of two influential language-translation dictionaries. During his years in England ...

. Calogerà also wrote ''"Memorie intorno alla vita di M. Luca De Renaldis vescovo di Trieste consigliere intimo dell'imperadore Massimiliano I e suo ambasciatore a molte corti sovrane d'Europa''", stampate a Venezia nel

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.Venezia, appresso Modesto Fenzo, 1753. Fonte: Opac SBN. Catalogo del servizio bibliotecario nazionale.

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* Italian Benedictines 18th-century Italian writers 18th-century Italian male writers 1696 births 1766 deaths Writers from Padua

Angelo Angelo is an Italian language, Italian masculine given name and surname meaning "angel", or "messenger". People People with the given name *Angelo Accattino (born 1966), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church *Angelo Acciaioli (bishop) (1298– ...

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