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	Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti - LoveToKnow 1911
		GIUSEPPE CASPAR MEZZOFANTI (1 77418 49), Italian cardinal and linguist, was born on the 17th of September 1774, at Bologna, and educated there.
		He was ordained priest in 1797, and in the same year became professor of Arabic in the university, but shortly afterwards was deprived for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the Cisalpine Republic.
		In 1833 he succeeded Angelo Mai as chief keeper of the Vatican library, and in 1838 was made cardinal and director of studies in the Congregation.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Giuseppe_Caspar_Mezzofanti (253 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
		Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (17 September 1774 — 15 March 1849) was an Italian cardinal and famed linguist.
		Mezzofanti held this post until his removal from Bologna to Rome in 1831, as a member of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Congregatio de Propaganda Fide), the Church's missionary organization.
		Mezzofanti is well-known for being a hyperpolyglot and it is believed that he spoke 38 languages and 50 dialects fluently.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Giuseppe_Mezzofanti (387 words)

	Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Giuseppe Mezzofanti (* 17 September 1774 in Bologna; † 17.
		The catholic of clergyman Mezzofanti was a professor for Arabic language in Bologna and became 1833 Kustos of the vatikanischen library.
		Mezzofanti controlled nearly ten languages at the age of twelve years.
	cleverpedia.com /Giuseppe_Caspar_Mezzofanti (201 words)

	Biography of Mezzofanti - Mezzofanti.org
		In 1797, at the age of 23, Mezzofanti was ordained a Catholic priest, and in the same year, was named professor of Semitic languages (e.g., Hebrew) and chair of that department, at the University of Bologna.
		Mezzofanti became a chaplain for hospitals in Bologna during the battles of 1799-1800 in Italy, where he was able to converse with people of many languages and nationalities who were wounded in the battles.
		In 1803, Mezzofanti was invited back to the university as a professor of the Classical languages (i.e., Greek and Latin).
	www.mezzofanti.org /mezzofanti.html (522 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giuseppe Mezzofanti
		A cardinal, the greatest of polyglots, born 19 September, 1774; died 15 March, 1849.
		In 1806, he refused an invitation of Napoleon to establish himself at Paris.
		Besides the study of languages, to which he gave many hours of the day and night, he devoted himself to the study of ethnology, archæology, numismatics, and astronomy.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10270b.htm (532 words)

	Giuseppe Mezzofanti
		In 1808, the chair of Oriental languages was suppressed, and Mezzofanti received, in compensation, a pension of 1000 lire; but, in 1815, he became librarian of the university, and occupied his chair once more.
		His knowledge of these languages was intuitive, rather than analytic, he left no scientific works, although some studies in comparative linguistics are to be found among his manuscripts, which he left, in part, to the municipal library, and in part to the library of the University of Bologna.
		MANAVITT, Esquisse historique sur le cardinal Mezzofanti (Paris, 1853); RUSSELL, The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti (London, 1858).
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/mezzofanti,giuseppe.html (513 words)

	Giuseppe Mezzofanti - Wikipédia
		Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (17 septembre 1774 – 15 mars 1849) fut un italien, cardinal de l'Église catholique, linguiste et polyglotte renommé.
		Mezzofanti occupa ce poste jusqu'à ce qu'il quittât Bologne pour rejoindre Rome en 1831, en tant que membre de la Congrégation pour la Propagation de la Foi (Congregatio de Propaganda Fide), organe de l'Eglise catholique en matière d'activités missionnaires et d'évangélisation.
		Mezzofanti est célèbre pour son extraordinaire aptitude aux langues : on pense qu'il en parlait couramment 60, et qu'il en maîtrisait beaucoup d'autres honorablement, quoique avec moins de facilité.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giuseppe_Mezzofanti (356 words)

	The Five Minute Linguist
		The most famous hyper-polyglot was probably Giuseppe Mezzofanti, a 19th century Italian Cardinal, who was reputed to speak 72 languages.
		If you assume each language had 20,000 words, and Mezzofanti could remember a word infallibly after meeting it only once, he'd still have to learn a word a minute, 12 hours a day for five-and-a-half years.
		But Mezzofanti was constantly tested by critics, and they were all impressed.
	www.cofc.edu /linguist/archives/2005/11/how_many_langua_1.html (913 words)

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		How great then was my surprise, when I saw him immediately seize the opportunity, and speak to me during half an hour on the astronomy and mathematics of the Indian races, in a way which would have done honour to a man whose chief occupation had been tracing the history of the sciences.
		He would hardly permit the simple mark of respect — the kissing of the ring which ordinarily accompanies the salutation of one of high ecclesiastical dignity in Italy; and his demeanour was so entirely devoid of assumption of superiority that the humblest visitor was at once made to feel at home in his company.
		In 1831, he settled in Rome, accepted a prebend in the church of St. Mary Major, which he exchanged for a canonry in St. Peter’s; he was next appointed keeper of the Vatican library, and in 1838 was elevated to the Cardinalate.
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	The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Conclaves by century
		- Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil, C.R.S.P. - Carlo Giuseppe Filippo di Martiniana, bishop of Vercelli.
		- Giuseppe Maria Capece Zurlo, Theat., archbishop of Naples.
		Cardinal Giuseppe Albani presented the veto of Emperor Franz I of Austria against the election of Cardinal Antonio Gabriele Severoli.
	www.fiu.edu /~mirandas/conclave-xix.htm (2111 words)

	GIUSEPPE CASPAR MEZZOF... - Online Information article about GIUSEPPE CASPAR MEZZOF... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Mezzofanti until his removal from Bologna to See also:
		Rome in 1831, as a member of the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/MEZZOFANTI_GIUSEPPE_CASPAR_1774.html (471 words)

	First language teachers of Mezzofanti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was mainly, however, through the counsel and influence of a benevolent priest of the Oratory, Father John Baptist Respighi, that the career of the young Mezzofanti was decided.
		This excellent clergyman, to whom many deserving youths of his native city were indebted for assistance and patronage in their entrance into life, observed the rare talents of Mezzofanti, and, by his earnest advice, promptly overruled the hesitation of his father.
		It would be interesting to be able to trace the exact history of this period of the studies of Mezzofanti, and to fix the dates and the order of his successive acquisitions in what afterwards became the engrossing pursuit of his life.
	how-to-learn-any-language.com /e/mezzofanti/biography/1.4.first-masters.html (1188 words)

	GIUSEPPE CASPAR MEZZOF... - Article en ligne de l'information environ GIUSEPPE CASPAR MEZZOF... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mezzofanti jusqu'à son déplacement de Bologna vers See also:
		CONNAISSANCE (cognitio latin, de cognoscere, pour devenir au courant de)
		Russell, la vie du Mezzofanti cardinal (Londres, 1857); A.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /fr/MEC_MIC/MEZZOFANTI_GIUSEPPE_CASPAR_1774.html (692 words)

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		Pos fiduin staböfik studas Godavik Mezzofanti> äbinom nog mödo tu yunik ad dagetön kultasakrami, pro kel bäldot yelas teldeglul, u ko däl papala, yelas pu teldegkil pebüostipon.
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	A.I.S.N.A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Francesco Giuseppe Bressani, from Rome, was the first Italian to join the French missionaries in New France.
		Among them was the Roman Count Giuseppe Primoli, who took very realistic photographs of actors and spectators after a performance in Rome, in the Monte Mario area, in March 1890 (Fulgenzi).
		Among the Italian intellectuals who engaged in the trascription of regional dialects and oral poetry, the most influential was Giuseppe Pitré (1841-1916), the Sicilian physician, historian, and philologist who, with his life-long project, the Biblioteca di tradizioni popolari siciliane (1871-1913), was the founder of the Italian school of folklore.
	www.aisna.net /rsajournal5/giordano.html (8054 words)

	is the seal of confession binding on me, too? - phatmass phorum
		Cardinal Mezzofanti was one of the most gifted linguists the world has ever known.
		Cardinal Mezzofanti said that he would learn German and hear their confessions.
		According to Russell, Cardinal Mezzofanti spoke perfectly thirty-eight languages, among which were: biblical and rabbinic Hebrew, Arabic, Chaldean, Coptic, Armenian, ancient and modern, Persian, Turkish, Albanian, Maltese, Greek, ancient and modern, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, English, Illyrian, Russian, Polish, Bohemian, Magyar, Chinese, Syriac, Gees, Amharic, Hindustani, Guzerati, Basque, Wallachian, and Californian
	www.phatmass.com /phorum/index.php?showtopic=28830 (949 words)

	Cardinals Created by Pope Gregory XVI (81)
		Giuseppe Antonio Sala, former Prefect of Sacred Congregation of the Index, former Prefect of Congregation of Bishops and Regulars, former Archpriest of Major Basilica of St. Mary Major
		Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti, former Prefect of Sacred Congregation of Studies
		Giuseppe Antonio Zacchia Rondinini (in pectore until 1845.04.21), former Vice-Chamerlain of the Holy Roman Church of Reverend Apostolic Camera
	www.gcatholic.com /hierarchy/data/cardG16.htm (829 words)

	List of noted polyglots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The world's most prolific living polyglot may be Ziad Fazah (born 1954) who apart from his mother tongue Arabic is reported to speak 55 other languages.
		The greatest polyglot in history may have been cardinal Giuseppe Gaspardo Mezzofanti (1774-1849), who is reported to have spoken up to a hundred languages fluently (though about fifty of them were "only" dialects).
		On a visit from the Lord Byron, he surprised Byron by showing knowledge of certain things in local London slang that the poet himself was not aware of.
	www.eddiedonovan.com /notablepolyglots.htm (1263 words)

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		De tel balid, älärnom sunädo pükis Spanyänik e Mäxikäniki.
		Dü tim, das äbinom prelatal (1831 - 1838), änemoy omi suvo: - bi ägivom dili gretikün lemeseda okik pöfanes, sodas papal it pö promuv mana mu relöfika ad kardinan, ämutom dunön pelotis zesüdik demü klotem e konöm oma.
		Ven nu yel 1848 äkömon, ko voluts sovadik okik, ed i ko fug papala lü , lifäl ela äleläsikon aiplu, jüs luegaflamat äjedon omi ün yanul yela 1849 sui dolabed ed äblinon ome deadami niliköl omik.
	web.onetel.net.uk /~rmidgley/adv_reided_3.htm (1626 words)

	ITworld.com - English to You; Greek to Them
		CARDINAL GIUSEPPE Mezzofanti (1774-1849) was possibly the most multilingual person in history.
		The remarkable cardinal, once the head of the Vatican library, reportedly could speak some 50 languages fluently.
		The United Parcel Service (UPS) of America isn't close to challenging Mezzofanti's impressive record, but the Atlanta-based company is working on it.
	www.itworld.com /Tech/2403/CIO010115et/pfindex.html (1342 words)

	Find in a Library: The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti; with an introductory memoir of eminent linguists, ancient and ...
		Find in a Library: The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti; with an introductory memoir of eminent linguists, ancient and modern.
		The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti; with an introductory memoir of eminent linguists, ancient and modern.
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/1592a1be0c73da62.html (92 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Polyglots rare and amazing
		Italian Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774-1849) spoke 72 languages, 30 fluently.
		Hudson posted these claims on the Linguist listserv, coining the term "hyperpolyglot." One reader called the Mezzofanti claim preposterous: Assuming 20,000 words per language, he would have had to learn a word a minute, 12 hours a day for 5 1/2 years!
		Some linguists say the brain lacks such reserves, but psycholinguist Suzanne Flynn argues, "It gets easier the more languages you know." Whether hyperpolyglots just work harder at it or have a special intelligence, they're a marvel and the envy of the rest of us who struggle to master passable Spanish, Russian, Japanese.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600125998,00.html (568 words)

	LINGUIST List 7.881: Linguality
		The first two both told me about Cardinal Mezzofanti, with the following fascinating details provided by Paul Fallon: >In Parade Magazine (a Sunday American newspaper insert), there was a >"Significata" column on 21 June 1981.
		He became a priest, headed the Vatican Library in 1833 >and ultimately became a cardinal.
		> >I'm not sure how Mezzofanti could have found native speakers for some >languages like Old English, nor am I sure whether one could truly master >any language in 4 months or less, but perhaps Mezzofanti is the >record-holder for polyglottism.
	linguistlist.org /issues/7/7-881.html (615 words)

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		Richard Francis Burton spoke and read about 25 languages, and had near native ability in at least a dozen of them.
		This is hardly a record talent -- Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti spoke at least 40 languages well, and could get by in about 75.
		The current record is apparently held by Ziad Fazah, who gets by in more than 50 languages besides his native Arabic, and is fluent in at least 40 of them.
	www.e-budo.com /forum/showpost.php?p=206345&postcount=12 (95 words)

	Mezzofanti.org - Welcome Letter
		Giuseppe Mezzofanti, born in 1774, was twice gifted with the gifts of a prodigious memory and a tremendous ambition to learn foreign languages.
		Eventually he would become a priest, Vatican librarian, and cardinal.
		It has been recorded that during his lifetime, Cardinal Mezzofanti was fluent in more than 50 languages, was able to understand a further 20, and translate into an extra 114 - smashing the worldwide record for language fluency.
	www.mezzofanti.org /letter.html (494 words)

	How many languages can a person speak?
		One of the record-keepers of multilinguality was undoubtedly Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774-1849) who was the head of the Vatican library.
		The interesting fact is that Mezzofanti never left Italy, he managed to learn all languages either by finding native speakers who visited the Vatican or entirely from books.
		He knew a number of dead languages, including Latin, ancient Greek and Hebrew, Coptic, ancient Armenian, old English, etc: these could not have been acquired through real-life teachers.
	www.logoi.com /notes/polyglots.html (444 words)

	Plaque on Mezzofanti's birth house in Bologna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is the plaque on Cardinal Mezzofanti's birth house in Bologna, Italy.
		If you can improve the translation or figure out the text I could not read please let me know.
		No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization.
	how-to-learn-any-language.com /e/mezzofanti/mezzofanti-bologna-plaque.html (81 words)

	S. Onofrio (Cardinal Titular Church) [Catholic-Hierarchy]
		Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti † (12 Feb 1838 Appointed - 15 Mar 1849 Died)
		Carlo Luigi Morichini † (15 Mar 1852 Appointed - 12 Mar 1877 Appointed, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano)
		Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti † (Cardinal-Priest: 12 Feb 1838 to 15 Mar 1849)
	www.catholic-hierarchy.org /diocese/d1o02.html (393 words)

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