an Italian antiquarian, was born at Verona, Nov. 13, 1702, and studied the humanities with the Jesuits with such success that at the age of twelve he maintained a public thesis on philosophy. He afterwards enter the order and applied himself to the study of Hebrew, Greek, and ecclesiastical history. He finally went to Rome as reviser of the ancient languages, and there became a noted authority on the antiquities of the Middle Ages, a subject on which he wrote several works. He also edited the Opera, Omnia of Jerome (Verona, 1734, 12 vols. fol.), and those of Tyrannus. Rufinus (ibid. 1745, 4to). He died at Verona, Aug. 14,1771. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. G neral, s.v.