PACELLI, GIUSEPPE. - Priest, b. at Manduria (Taranto) on 31 Dec. 1763 to Pietro and Francesca Paola Viglietta, from a branch of the P. or De Pacelli family, d. at Lecce on 2 Dec. 1811.
In 1787 he was ordained a priest; he specialized in geography, teaching for many years in various colleges and seminaries and devoting himself at the same time to historical and geographical studies. In 1795 he published his first work: Elementi di geografia per uso del Seminario di Otranto (2 vols., Naples), which earned him appointment as a member of the Accademia dei Sinceri dell'Arcadia of Naples, under the Arcadian name Nicomero Euripio. He subsequently composed: L'Atlante nity of Italy with that of the Holy See. The difficulty was overcome by accepting the point of view of the latter, and already on 24 Nov. 1926 the P. delivered to the Baron a draft of the Treaty (the text of which was to be in Latin). The denomination of the new territory was discussed, which was to include, besides the Vatican, the Villa Doria-Pamphili; the first proposal was that of "State of the Holy See"
of Salento, in 2 vols., of high value, but still unpublished, along with other works of great interest for the historical and geographical knowledge of the Salento region. As a historian, the P. is a scholar of local history who to the traditionalist approach was able to add elements of sound criticism.
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Edoardo Pascadopoli