Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi (21 October 1684 – 12 September 1771) was an Italian priest, antiquary and philologist.
Reverend Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi | |
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 Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi | |
| Born | October 21, 1684 |
| Died | 12 September 1771 (aged 86) |
| Resting place | Santa Restituta |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Catholic priest, translator, university teacher, orientalist |
| Parent(s) | Lorenzo Mazzocchi and Margherita Mazzocchi (née Battaglia) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classical archaeology, Classics, Biblical studies |
| Institutions | University of Naples Federico II |
Biography edit
Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi was born in 1684 at Santa Maria, near Capua.[1] He attended the Seminaries of Capua and Naples.[2] He was ordained a priest in 1709, and became professor of Greek and Hebrew at the archiepiscopal seminary at Naples.[1] In 1711 he was made a canon of the Cathedral of Capua and in 1735 he was appointed professor of theology and Sacred Scripture at the University of Naples.[3] He died in Naples on 12 September 1771.[2] His funerary monument was sculpted by Giuseppe Sanmartino.[4] Mazzocchi was a friend of Francesco Scipione Maffei, Jacopo Facciolati and Ludovico Antonio Muratori.[2] He was a member of several learned societies, including the Accademia Ercolanese and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.[2] Mazzocchi made significant contributions to the field of biblical criticism (Spicilegium Biblicum, 3 vols., 1763).[3]
Works edit
- In mutilum Campani Amphitheatri titulum, aliasque nonnullas Campanas Inscriptiones Commentarius, published in Naples in 1727 and reissued in the fifth volume of Giovanni Poleni's Utriusque Thesauri Antiquitatum Nova Supplementa;
- De dedicatione sub ascia commentationes. Neapoli: Felix Carolus Musca excudit. 1739.
- In vetus marmoreum Sanctae Neapolitanae Ecclesiae Kalendarium Commentarius. Neapoli: ex officina Novelli de Bonis typographi archiepiscopalis. 1744–55.
Mazzocchi published several other philological and archeological dissertations, among whom one in Italian, on the origin of the Tyrrhenians, published in the third volume of the Acts of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona. He published also an improved edition of Vossius' Etymologicon linguae Latinae (Naples, 1762) and dissertations on Hebrew poetry and on the Antiquities of the Roman Campagna. He left besides, in manuscript, a book on the origin of the city of Capua.[1]
Notes edit
- ^ a b c Rose 1848, p. 68.
- ^ a b c d Luise 2009.
- ^ a b "Mazzòcchi, Alessio Simmaco". Enciclopedia on line. Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ^ D'Alfonso, Alessandro (2017). "SANMARTINO, Giuseppe". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 90: Salvestrini–Saviozzo da Siena (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
Bibliography edit
This article incorporates public domain material from McClintock, John; Strong, James (1867–1887). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper and Brothers.- Rose, Hugh James (1848). "(Mazzocchi) Alessio Simmacho". A New General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 10. London: B. Fellowes. p. 68. Retrieved 1 September 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Luise, Flavia (2009). "MAZZOCCHI, Alessio Simmaco". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 72: Massimo–Mechetti (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
