Pasquale Carcani
Pasquale Marco Carcani (March or May 1721[a] – 12 November 1783) was an Italian scholar, philologist and jurist. He was also known by his pseudonym Sofista Pericalle.
Early life and education
Born in Naples to Marco Carcani and Maria Angela de Matteis,
After studying grammar and rhetoric, he began studying maths with
Career
As a young man he joined the Accademia Cosentina.[7] When Pasquale was aged 21 Domenico died and so devoted himself to jurisprudence and then politics, whilst sticking with literature, which was always his first love.[7] He also attended lawyer, philologist and jurist Girolamo Pandolfelli's Accademia degli Emuli, hosted in Pandolfelli's own rooms, where he met the era's best scholars and adopted the pseodnym Sofista Pericalle.[8]
In 1755, he was chosen as one of the fifteen members of the
Works
- Le Antichità di Ercolano
- Componimenti vari per la morte di D. Domenico Jannacone
Notes
References
- ^ Carcani, P. (1784). Paschalis Carcani Vita. typis Raymundianis. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ Castaldi 1840 (op. cit.)
- ^ de Rosa 1834 (op. cit.)
- ^ a b Castaldi 1840, pag.104.
- ^ a b c de Rosa 1834, pag.64.
- ^ Carcani 1784, pag.1.
- ^ a b c d de Rosa 1834, pag.65.
- ^ a b de Rosa 1834, pag.66.
- ^ Castaldi 1840, pag.33.
- ^ Castaldi 1840, pag.36.
- ^ (in Italian) Storia e politica (op. cit.), pag.86.
- ^ de Rosa 1834, pag.67.
Bibliography (in Italian)
- Giuseppe Niccolò F. Castaldi, Della Regale Accademia Ercolanese dalla sua fondazione sinora con un cenno biografico de' suoi soci ordinari, Napoli, 1840, p. 104.
- Carlo Antonio de Rosa marchese di Villarosa, Ritratti poetici di alcuni uomini di lettere antichi e moderni del regno di Napoli, stamperia e cartiera del Fibreno, 1834, p. 64 and following
- Università di Roma, Istituto di studi storico-politici, Storia e politica, Giuffrè editore, 1984.
External links
- (in Italian) "MLOL entry". mlol.link. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- "Open Library entry". Open Library. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
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