[60] Feller’s Dict. Biog. art. Galani.
[61] The learned Jesuit, Father Giambattista Ferrari, author of the Nomenclator Syrus, is an exception to the general rule. He does not appear to have been a member of any of the Eastern missions. Angelo Canini, the eminent Syriac scholar, though born in Italy, belongs rather to the French school.
[62] Wadding assigns his death to the year 1638; but it is clear from the preface of the Thesaurus that he was dead several years before its publication, which was in 1636.
[63] Alcorani Textus Universus. 2 vols, fol., Padua, 1698.
[64] Biogr. Uni. XV. 263, (Brussels Ed.)
[65] He must not be confounded with a German Orientalist, Christopher Sigismund Georgi, who lived about the same time.
[66] Biographie Universelle, Vol. XXVI, p. 128.
[67] For this interesting anecdote of Father Ignazio de Rossi, I am indebted to Cardinal Wiseman, who learned it from the companions of the good old father upon the occasion. His Eminence added, that it was done as a mere amusement, and without the least effort or the remotest idea of preparation.
[68] Through the kindness of the Cavaliere Pezzana, Royal Librarian and Privy Councillor of Parma, I have been fortunate enough to obtain copies of some of Mezzofanti’s letters to De Rossi, which will be found in their chronological order hereafter.
[69] It is a magnificent folio, entitled “Epithalamia Exoticis Linguis Reddita;” one of the most curious productions of the celebrated press of Bodoni. Parma, 1775.