1. Giuseppe Ripamonti was an Italian Catholic priest and historian.
10 Facts About Giuseppe Ripamonti
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Giuseppe Ripamonti wrote in Latin Historia Ecclesiae Mediolanensis.
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In 1841, the latin chronicle of the plague by Giuseppe Ripamonti was published in Italian translation by Francesco Cusani.
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Amongst the scholars working at the Ambrosiana, Giuseppe Ripamonti was tasked with looking after Church history.
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Giuseppe Ripamonti was a quarrelsome sort who had a sharp tongue and consequently many enemies.
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In 1622 Giuseppe Ripamonti was sentenced to five years of imprisonment, but Cardinal Borromeo commuted the sentence to confinement within the archbishop's palace, thus allowing him to finish the second and the third volumes of his Historia relating to the recently bygone era of Charles Borromeo.
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In 1630, still thanks to the indulgence of Federico Borromeo, Giuseppe Ripamonti was re-admitted to the Ambrosiana.
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Giuseppe Ripamonti thus assumed the responsibility of taking forward the Historia patria from the year 1313, that is from the final year covered in the Historia of Tristano Calco that had been recently published.
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Giuseppe Ripamonti corresponded with scholars all over Europe, including Isaac Casaubon and the German philologist Caspar Schoppe.
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Alessandro Manzoni revived the fame of Giuseppe Ripamonti and praised him in I Promessi Sposi, borrowing from him some of the most salient episodes in the novel.