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Arcamone (Archemone), Ignazio

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Also known as: Ignatius Arcamone, Ignatius Archemone

ARCAMONE (ARCHEMONE), IGNAZIO. - Jesuit missionary, b. in Bari around 1615, d. in Rachol on 30 April 1683. Having entered the novitiate of Naples in 1631, he left for the East Indies in 1644 and worked for more than twenty years in the peninsula of Salsette.

He composed in the Konkani language a treatise on purgatory (1663) and a series of explanations of the Sunday Gospels for the whole year (1664). There remained in manuscript a De Salvetana peninsula commentarius (Rome, National Library) and an important Ianua indica, sive pro concamina et decamina linguis manuale (grammar and vocabulary; at the National Library of Lisbon).

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, I, col. 203; VIII, col. 1684; Streit, Bibl., V, p. 213.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Arcamone (Archemone), ignazio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1791. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/arcamone-archemone-ignazio.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Arcamone (Archemone), ignazio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1791. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/arcamone-archemone-ignazio.

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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
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