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Mittarelli, Giovanni Benedetto

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Also known as: Latin: Johannes Benedictus Mittarelli

MITTARELLI, GIOVANNI BENEDETTO. - Camaldolese Benedictine, b. in Venice on 2 Sept. 1708, d. at Murano on 14 Aug. 1777. Under the guidance of Calogerà he devoted himself to erudite research. In 1747 he was sent as chancellor of his Congregation to Faenza. Abbot of the province of Venice from 1756, in 1760 he became abbot of S. Michele at Murano and in 1764 abbot general of the Order. He held this office in Rome for five years, favored by Clement XIII.

His masterpiece consists of the Annales Camaldulenses Ordinis S. Benedicti (Venice 1773), which he completed, with the help of Anselmo Costudoni, on the model offered by Mabillon: they cover the period from 907 to 1764. Among his minor works is the posthumous Bibliotheca codicum manuscriptorum S. Michaelis Venetiarum prope Murianum.

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BIBL.: P. Paschini, s. v. in Enc. Ital., XXIII, p. 487; H. Kienei s. v. in LThK, VII, col. 243.

Fausto Fonzi

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII (1952), col. 1156.

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Fonzi, Fausto. “Mittarelli, giovanni benedetto.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 1156. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/mittarelli-giovanni-benedetto.

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Fonzi, Fausto. “Mittarelli, giovanni benedetto.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1156. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/mittarelli-giovanni-benedetto.

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  title     = {Mittarelli, giovanni benedetto},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VIII},
  pages     = {1156},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
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