Bernardo Zamagna

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Bernardo Zamagna was a priest of the Dominican Order, a theologist and predicator.

He was born in Ragusa (present day Dubrovnik) on December 9, 1735. He studied in institutes of Jesuits. At age eighteen he moved to Rome in order to continue his studies. Here he was student of the two other Raguseans Raimondo Cunich and Ruggiero Boscovich. After the conclusion of his studies in Rome, he went to live in Siena.

Poet and scientist with a passion for astronomy, at twenty years only he published a poem in Latin: "De aucupio accipitris" (The Hunting of the Sparrowhawk). This work was soon republished in Germany. Later, he translated into Latin the Iliad and Odyssey (Venice 1777).

He wrote commentaries on Hesiod and Theocritus (Parma 1768), Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius. He refused the chair of Greek at University of Milan, offered by Maria Theresa of Austria. He returned in Ragusa in 1783. He died in April 20, 1820.

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