D'AMATO, GIUSEPPE. – Barnabite, born in Naples on 18 September 1758, died in Monlhà (Maumalach) in April 1832. A missionary from 1783 in the kingdoms of Ava and Pegò, in Burma; a perfect connoisseur of the pali language and Burmese customs, he devoted himself among the indigenous people as a physician and surgeon.
A Raccolta di 300 piante e fiori..., etc., in 4 folio volumes (2 of text and 2 of plates painted by him himself), was lost, together with manuscripts on morality and the sciences. His rich zoological museum passed to Captain Burney, his friend.
BIBL.: L. Gallo, Storia del Cristianesimo nell'Impero Birmano, III, Monza 1862, pp. 141-48; M. Cristalli, Il p. G. D'A., in I Barnabiti, Roma 1933, pp. 255-58, 300-304; G. Boffito, Scrittori Barnabiti, I, Firenze 1934, pp. 28-29. Virginio M. Colciago