IMBONATI, CARLO GIUSEPPE

IMBONATI, CARLO GIUSEPPE. - A 17th-century Cistercian hebraist, of whom few biographical details are known, born in Milan, lived for a long time in Rome, died in 1697. From his confrere G. Bartolocci (v.) he learned Greek and Hebrew, and assisted him in collecting the vast Bibliotheca magna rabbinica, continuing its publication

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IMBREVIATURA - Augustan charter with related i.: Pietro di Conoz (from Cuneo) donates to Goffredo di Châtillon (de Castellione) «totam illam feudataria et totum illud ius» of the fief that he held from the same Goffredo (Aosta, March 7, 1252) - Châtillon (Aosta), Archivio Challant, bundle 61, 5.

cation after the death of his master. In 1693 he thus published vol. IV, derived almost entirely from the papers of the deceased.

As a personal work I. published a Bibliotheca latino-hebraica sive de scriptoribus latinis qui ex diversis rationibus contra Iudaeos vel de re hebraica utcunque scripsere... (Rome 1694), with a long apologetic appendix (Adventus Messiae) on the Messiah and with a study on the chronology of the Bible.

BIBL.: C. G. Morotius, Cistercii reflorescentis chronologica historia, 3rd part, Turin 1690, p. 130; M. Armellini, Bibliotheca Benedictino-Casinensis, IV, Foligno 1736, p. 15; F. Argelati, Bibliotheca scriptorum Mediolanensium, II, Milan 1745, coll. 737 and 1697; J. François, Bibliothèque générale des écrivains de l'Ordre de St Benoît, II, Bouillon 1777, p. 4; B. Heurtebize, s. V. in DThC, VII, coll. 844-45; Hurter, IV, coll. 474-78. Angelo Penna
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“IMBONATI, CARLO GIUSEPPE.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 951. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/imbonati-carlo-giuseppe.