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GIUSEPPE MEZZOFANTI

GIUSEPPE MEZZOFANTI (1771-1848), cardinal and linguist, born at Bologna; celebrated for the number of languages he knew, some 58 in all; lived chiefly in Rome, and was keeper of the Vatican library; Byron called him "a walking polyglot".


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