MONACI, ERNESTO. - Philologist and historian, b. at Soriano nel Cimino (Viterbo) on 20 February 1844, d. at Rome on 1 May 1918.

Having graduated in law at Rome in 1865, he soon turned to Romance philology, of which he was one of the foremost promoters in Italy. He held a professorship in that discipline at the University of Rome from 1876 to 1918, and from his school came distinguished scholars of philological, historical and paleographical studies. The name of E. M. is linked to the rise of several important scholarly undertakings and institutions such as the Rivista di filologia romanza (1872: now Studi romanzi); the Società romana di storia patria (1876); the Archivio paleografico italiano (1884); the Società filologica romana (1901). Among M.'s numerous writings, particular mention is due to the Canzoniere portoghese della Biblioteca Vaticana (Imola 1873); the Uffizi drammatici dei disciplinati dell'Umbria (ibid. 1874), drawn from a Vallicellian codex; the Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli (Città di Castello 1889-1912); the Liber ystoriarum Romanorum of the civic library of Hamburg (posthumous, Rome 1920).

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BIBL.: V. Federici, E. M., in Arch. della Società romana di storia patria, 41 (1918), pp. 389-97; P. Rajna, In memoria di E. M., ibid., pp. 307-52; M. Pelsea, L'opera di E. M., in Nuova antologia, 53 (1918), pp. 53-61; E. M.: l'uomo, il maestro, il filologo, edited by the Società filologica romana, Rome 1920.

Francesco Barberi

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