VALLARSI, DOMENICO. – Priest and scholar, born in Verona on 13 November 1702, died there on 14 August 1771.
His principal work is the edition of the writings of St. Jerome (11 vols., Verona 1734–42; 2nd enlarged ed., Venice 1766–72, reproduced in PL 22–30), for which he searched for manuscripts in various cities of Italy. He assisted Scipione Maffei in the edition of the works of St. Hilary (2 vols., Verona 1730) and published a volume of the writings of Rufinus (there 1745).
A collector of manuscripts and antiquities, which he donated to the Museum of Verona, he was “whipped” by Baretti for a supposed inscription concerning SS. Fermo and Rustico that he had elucidated.
He held several canonries, and Benedict XIV appointed him reviser for the Oriental languages of the Holy Office.