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Roman antiquarian of Greek origin
Niccolo Alamanni
(
Ancona
, 12 January 1583 –
Rome
, 1626) was a Roman
antiquarian
of Greek origin.
Biography
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Alamanni was educated in Rome at the
Greek College
, founded by
Gregory XIII
, but was ordained deacon and priest according to the Latin rite.
After teaching Greek for some time to persons of rank, he was appointed secretary to
Cardinal Borghese
, and afterwards made custodian of the
Vatican Library
. His death is said to have been caused by too close attendance at the erection of the high altar of St. Peter's, to which honorable duty he had been assigned with orders to see that the sepulchres of the holy martyrs were not interfered with in the course of the work.
Works
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Alamanni wrote a
Syntagma de Lateranensibus parietibus
(Rome, 1625) on the occasion of restorations carried out in the
church of St. John Lateran
by his patron, Cardinal Borghese; also a dissertation on the relative importance of the right and left side as exhibited in certain old papal coins that place
St. Paul
to the right of
St. Peter
,
De dextrae laevaeque manus praerogativa ex antiquis Pontificum nummis Paulum Petro apostolo anteponentibus
. He is known in the history of classical literature as the editor (Lyon, 1623) of the famous
Anecdota
, or
Secret History,
of
Procopius
, a work that was violently criticized outside of Italy.
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