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PULITI, ALESSANDRO. - Piarist, born in Florence on July 10, 1679, died there on July 25, 1752. Educated
Latin and Greek, he taught philosophy and theology for a long time in Florence and Genoa. (photo Istituto Arti Grafiche, Bergamo) PULPITO - P. della cattedrale di Bitonto (1229).His works reveal him to be a great scholar, although, in the judgment of some, he sins by being too diffuse and meticulous. One of the works that brought him the greatest fame as a distinguished Hellenist was his Commentaria in Homeri Iliadem of Eustathius (three large folio vols., Florence 1730, 1732, 1735; vol. IV still unpublished). In 1733 he was appointed professor of the Greek language at the University of Pisa, later moving, upon the death of B. Averani, to that of eloquence and belles-lettres. His printed Latin orations, delivered "pro instauratione studiorum", are most noteworthy. He was very dear to Pope Benedict XIV, from whom he received encouragement for the publication of his commentaries on the Roman Martyrology, a vast and erudite work, of which, however, unfortunately only the first volume appeared (Martyrol. Romanum commentariis illustratum, Florence, folio). Some of his works were collected after his death and published in 1774.
BIBL.: G. Lami, Novelle fiorentine, Firenze 1752; A. Vannucci, in Biografie degli italiani illustri edite dal Tipaldo, IV, Venezia 1837, pp. 301-304; Bollettino bibliografico scolopico, edito per cura di L. Picanyol, Roma 1935, pp. 18-22.
Leodegario Picanyol
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“PULITI, ALESSANDRO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X (1953), p. 197. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/puliti-alessandro.
