Joseph Allegranza

Joseph Allegranza (16 October 1715 – 18 December 1785) was a Milanese Dominican who won
distinction as a historian, archaeologist, and antiquary.

From 1748 to 1754 Allegranza conducted research in northern and central Italy and in France. After being
put in charge of the Royal Library at Milan, he made a catalogue of its contents, a work which was
crowned, in 1775, by the Empress Maria Theresa.

Works
Spiegazioni e riflessioni sopra alcuni sacri monumenti antichi di Milano (Milan, 1757)
De sepulcris christianis in aedibus sacris. — Accedunt inscriptiones sepulcrales christianae
saeculo septimo antiquiores in Insubria Austriaca repertae: item Inscriptiones sepulcrales
ecclesiarum atque aedium PP. Ord. Praed. Mediolani (Milan, 1773)
De Monogrammate D. N. Jesu Christi et usitatis ejus effingendi modis (Milan, 1773)
Opuscoli eruditi latini ed italiani (Cremona, 1781)
Osservazioni antiquarie critiche e fisiche fatte nel regno di Sicilia (Milan, 1781)

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Dwight, Walter (1907).
"Joseph Allegranza". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. 1. New York: Robert
Appleton Company.

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