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MARSIGLI

Volume 12 · 107 words · 1823 Edition

&c. all which he presented to the senate of Bologna by an authentic act in 1712, forming at the same time out of them what he called the Institute of the arts and sciences at Bologna. He also founded a printing house, and furnished it with the best types for Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic, which he presented in 1728 to the Dominicans at Bologna, on condition of their printing all the writings of the Institute at prime cost: this was called the printing house of St Thomas Aquinas. His writings on philosophical subjects are numerous and valuable, in Latin, Italian, and French. He died in 1730.