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Ludovico Antonio Muratori , 1672-1750, Italian historian, a Roman Catholic priest. One of the foremost scholars of his age, he was long archivist and ducal librarian at Modena. He discovered the Muratorian Canon, a scrap of early Christian literature (c.AD 190) containing the earliest known list of the New Testament books. Muratori edited the important source collections Rerum Italicarum scriptores (28 vol., 1723-51) and Antiquitates Italicae medii aevii (6 vol., 1738-42). He also wrote a history (12 vol., 1744-49) of Italy from Christian times.

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Muratori, Lodovico Antonio (1672–1750), Italian historian and theological scholar. He published a vast corpus of medieval sources of Italian history, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (25 vols., 1723–51), and an important collection of liturgical documents under the title Liturgia Romana Vetus (1748). See also the next entry.

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