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Carpagna, Gasparo

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an Italian cardinal, theologian, and numismatologist, who lived in the latter half of the 17th century, wrote, Epistola Pastoralis in the series of Carlo Borromeo: Instructiones Pastorum. (Louvain, 1702; Rouen, 1707). But Carpagna is better known as the collector of a cabinet of coins and medals, a catalogue and description of which is attributed to Bellori, entitled, Scelta de' Medacglioni piu rari nella Biblioteca del' Eminentissim. Signor Cardinale Gasparo Campcagna (Rome, 1679). Another description was published under a different title, at Amsterdam, in 1685. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gé neralé, s.v.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Carpagna, Gasparo'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​c/carpagna-gasparo.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.