Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
D'AFFLITTO, EUSTACHIO. - Dei duchi di Roc-
(da G. Millet, Le monastère de Daphnī, Parigi 1889) DAFNI - Graph of the mosaics in the basilica of Dafni.cagloriosa, where the family of Giorgio Castriota, known as Scanderbeg, became extinct, born in Roccagloriosa, province of Salerno, in 1742 and died in Naples in 1785. He would have liked to become a Jesuit, a confrere of his early teachers; however, he became a priest and later entered the Dominicans.
He taught philosophy in Naples at the convent of S. Domenico, and ecclesiastical history at the University; the esteem he earned won him membership in the Academy of Sciences and Letters and the direction of the library and Royal Museum of Capodimonte. He was a very cultured and erudite man, versed especially in the literary history of his country, which he intended to gift with the biographies of its writers; but he was able to publish only the first volume, covering writers from Abate to Azzolini (Memorie degli scrittori del regno di Napoli, Naples 1782), having been overtaken by a premature death.
BIBL.: E. Tipaldo, Biografie degli Italiani illustri, IV, Venice 1827, pp. 387-98; G. Tiraboschi, Storia della letteratura italiana, I, Milan 1833, pp. 57, 285. Luigi Berra
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“D'AFFLITTO, EUSTACHIO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), p. 656. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/d-afflitto-eustachio.
