Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi

Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi (18 August 1740 21 January 1792) was a distinguished Italian philologist who flourished during the latter half of the eighteenth century.

He was superintendent of the press connected with the Propaganda college at Rome, professor of Greek at the University of Rome La Sapienza,[1] and was the means of giving the world several fragments of ancient authors.[2]

He also wrote the preface to Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum, a book on the grammar of the South Indian Malayalam language, published in 1772.

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References

  1. "ENUTI, Ridolfino and AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo". Listed by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Bibliopoly. URL accessed 2006-09-28.
  2. Rose, Hugh James (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary, London: B. Fellowes et al.
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