Research topic: Ludovico Antonio Muratori

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Ludovico Antonio Muratori

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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. Author not available, MURATORI,... Read more
Risorgimento
...The Risorgimento's roots lie in 18th-century Italian culture in the works of such people as Ludovico Antonio Muratori , Vittorio Alfieri , and Antonio Genovesi . Italy had not been a single political unit since the fall of the Western Roman... Read more

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