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Italian Benedictine monk and writer
Don Angelo Calogera
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 Don Angelo Calogera
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Padua, Republic of Venice
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Isola di San Michele
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Angelo Calogera
, also known as
Domenico Demetrio Calogera
, (circa 7 September 1696,
Padua
? 29 September 1766,
Isola di San Michele
) was an Italian Benedictine monk and writer, active in popularizing literature and science.
Life
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Angelo was born
Domenico Demetrio Calogera
circa September 7, 1696, in
Padua
,
Republic of Venice
, to
Don
Liberale Calogera of
Corfu
and Giustina Labarvellon.
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His father was a member of the aristocratic
House of Calogera
and had distinguished himself in the
War of Cyprus
against the
Ottoman Empire
in the 1570s; eventually, he settled in Padua, held several administrative posts there, and finally moved to Venice and gained Venetian citizenship.
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In 1716 Angelo became a
Camaldolese
monk,
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initially as librarian of the
San Michele di Murano
and later as prior of
San Giorgio Maggiore
.
In 1728, at the peak of
Antonio Vallisneri
's renown, Calogera began publishing "
Raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filologici
",
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followed in 1755 by "
Nuova raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filologici
", which continued until its forty-second volume in 1787.
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In the first volume, after explicitly recognizing the value of modern culture,
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he published the
Progetto ai letterati d'Italia per iscrivere le loro vite
by Giovanni Artico, count of Porcia, followed by a biography, "
Vita di
Giambattista Vico
scritta da se medesimo
", and then (in the second volume) an autobiography of
Pier Jacopo Martello
.
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In
1762
he and father Giacomo Rebellini founded the journal "
Minerva ossia Nuovo giornale dei letterati d'Italia
",
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which ran until
1767
in opposition to the "
Frusta letteraria
" of
Giuseppe Baretti
.
Calogera 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
1753
.
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