page_title: Giammaria Mazzucchelli
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Giammaria Mazzucchelli / Works
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Notizie istoriche e critiche intorno alla vita, alle invenzioni, ed agli scritti di Archimede siracusano del co. Gian-Maria Mazzucchelli bresciano. - In Brescia&#160;: presso Gian-Maria Rizzardi, 1737. - [16], 128 p., IV c. di tav.&#160;: ill. calcografiche&#160;; 4º. - Vignetta calcografica sul front., 2 iniziali e 2 testate calcografiche, incise da C. Orsolini su disegni di P. Scalvino .
context_page_description: Count Giammaria Mazzuchelli was an Italian writer, bibliographer and historian.
context_section_description: He began with numerous scholarly and accurate biographies of ancient and more modern authors, e.g., Archimedes, Pietro Aretino, Lodovico Adimari, Alamanni Luigi, Matteo and Filippo Villani). From this experience, he conceived an ambitious plan to collect biographies of all the writers of Italy from the earliest times, including the history of their works. In this endeavor, he relied on the Queriniana library in Brescia, donated by the Cardinal Angelo Maria Quirini, and his extensive correspondence with the scholars of Italy and Europe. He began to compile a dictionary of great writers of Italy, but the work remained unfinished because of his untimely death. However, Mazzuchelli opened the way to the history of Italian literature, recognized by Girolamo Tiraboschi in the Introduction of his greatest work, and subsequent historians. Much of Mazzuchelli's unpublished material is still in manuscript form in the Vatican Library. A copy is also in the collection of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma.
caption: Notizie istoriche e critiche intorno alla vita, alle invenzioni, ed agli scritti di Archimede siracusano (1737)
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