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Eustachio d'Afflitto (29 July 1742 – 8 December 1787) was an Italian Catholic monk and scholar.
Biography
[edit]Born of noble family at Roccagloriosa, in the a province of Principato Citra, in the kingdom of Naples, in 1742, he studied at Naples, at first under the Jesuits, and afterwards in the Dominican College. He entered the Dominican Order on 26 September 1761.[1] He filled several chairs in various convents of his order, and was afterwards appointed librarian of the Farnese Library that Carlo di Borbone had transferred to Naples in 1734, and keeper of the Farnese Collection belonging to the King of Naples. He devoted himself entirely to literary studies, and undertook an elaborate biographical dictionary of the writers, natives of the kingdom of Naples, Memorie degli Scrittori del Regno di Napoli (Naples, 1782). The work is upon a more extensive plan, and is written with more accuracy and critical skill, than the former works on the same subject by Niccolò Toppi and Bernardino Tafuri; but, unfortunately, D'Afflitto published only the first volume. He died in 1785, leaving his manuscripts and the task of continuing his work to the Abbé Gualtieri, who published a second volume in 1794. Tiraboschi, in his notes to the second edition of his History of Italian Literature, speaks very favourably of the specimen which he had seen of D'Aflitto's work.[2]
Works
[edit]- Memorie degli scrittori del Regno di Napoli raccolte e distese da Eustachio D'Afflitto domenicano custode del museo, e della galleria de' quadri che sono nel r. palazzo di Capodimonte. Vol. 1. Naples: nella Stamperia Simoniana. 1782.
References
[edit]- ^ Cassani 1985.
- ^ Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (1842). Biographical Dictionary. London: Longman.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Bibliography
[edit]- Cassani, Cinzia (1985). "D'AFFLITTO, Eustachio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 31: Cristaldi–Dalla Nave (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.