Enciclopedia Cattolica

MAGNAN, DOMINIQUE

Volume VII · p. 1094 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

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Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

MAGNAN, DOMINIQUE. — Minim religious, archaeologist, and numismatist, born at Reillanne in Provence on 29 May 1731, died at Florence on 7 September 1796. Within his Order he was professor of theology at Avignon and Marseille; in 1760 he moved to Rome at the Trinità dei Monti, where he refined his studies of classical antiquities and numismatics, which he had already cultivated with great passion in his homeland. He was a member of several academies in Italy and abroad.

His principal works include: Dictionnaire portatif de la France (4 vols., Avignon 1770); Problema de anno nativitatis Christi (Rome 1772; based on a coin of Herod Antipas he places the birth of Jesus in the year 745 from the founding of Rome); Miscellanea numismatica (4 vols., ibid. 1772); La ville de Rome (4 vols. in-fol., ibid. 1776, with 425 engravings); Elegantiores statuae antiquae (ibid. 1776); La città di Roma (4 tomes, ibid. 1777–79, with 385 copperplates); Calcografia della colonna Antonina (4 vols., ibid. 1780, 150 plates).

BIBL.: C. D’Achard, s. V. in Dictionnaire de la Provence et du Comté-Venais, IV, pp. 512–13; P. Louis, s. V. in Nouvelle biographie générale de F. Didot, XXXII, cols. 709–11; Weiss, s. V. in M. Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, XXVI, p. 42 sq.; G. Roberti, Disegno storico dell’Ordine dei Minimi, III, Rome 1922, pp. 815–20; F. Bonnard, Histoire du couvent de la Trinité de Mont Pincio à Rome, Rome–Paris 1933, pp. 195–99, 208, 225, 226.