Celestino Cavedoni

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Celestino Cavedoni (18 May 1795 at Levizzano-Rangone, near

Cavedoni was a corresponding member of the commission created by Napoleon III to edit the works of Count Bartolomeo Borghesi, to which collection he contributed numerous scientific notes.

Cavedoni's numismatic works include:

• Saggio di osservazioni sulle medaglie di famiglie romane (1829)
• Carellii nummorum Italiæ Veteris tabulæ (Leipzig, 1850)
• Numismatica Biblica (Modena, 1850; German tr. by Werlhof, Hanover, 1855–56)

Cavedoni contributed numerous historical and archæological papers to the Annali and the Bullettino of the Archæological Institute of Rome and to other Italian publications. In religious polemics he wrote a critique of Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus, Confutazione dei principali errori di Ernesto Renan nella sua Vie de Jésus (Modena, 1863), which passed through four editions in several months.^[1]

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Weber, N.A. (1913). "Celestino Cavedoni". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Cites as sources:
  • BERTAUX, in La Grande Encyclopédie, IX, 967;
  • HURTER, Nomenclator (Innsbruck
    1895), III, 1024–25.