GIORGI, DOMENICO. - Prelate, historian and liturgist, b. at Costa di Rovigo on 4 June 1690, d. at Rovigo on 21 July 1747. A priest (1773), librarian of the library of Cardinal G. R. Imperiali, abbot of S. Maria di Saccolongo (1727), he was an intimate of Innocent XIII, Benedict XIII, Clement XII and Benedict XIV, who named him his domestic prelate. He devoted himself to erudite research in history and liturgy.

Of his numerous works only the following are remembered: De antiquis Italiae metropolitibus (Rome 1722); Trattato sopra gl'abiti sacri del Sommo Pontefice di Roma (ibid. 1724); De liturgia romani Pontificis in solemni celebratione missarum (3 vols. in-fol., ibid. 1731, 43, 44); De Monogrammate Christi (ibid. 1738, refutes Basnage); the edition of the Martyrologium Adonis (ibid. 1745); and the annotations to the edition of Baronio's Annales, edited by Mansi at Lucca (1738-59). Several of his manuscripts are preserved at the Casanatense Library.

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BIBL.: Vita di mons. D. G. descritta da un suo concittadino della città di Rovigo [Fonte Carlo Silvestri], in A. Calogera, Raccolta di opuscoli scientifici e filologici, XLI, Venice 1749, pp. 337-65; Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, XVII, Paris 1816, pp. 411-17; Hurter, IV, coll. 1565-66.

A. Pietro Frutaz

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Giorgi, Domenico

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