Selvaggio Canturani / Arcangelo Agostini (M / Italy, 1660-1746), translator

Arcangelo Agostini (Selvaggio Canturani) (1660c-1745) was an Italian translator.

Biography

Arcangelo Agostini was born in Venice [Italy] around 1660.

He joined the Carmelitan Order.

He published numerous translations of French works of theology and ethics, under the pseudonym Selvaggio Canturani.

Agostini died on December 15, 1746.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Arcangelo Agostini played an important role in Italy as a translator of French scholarship in the field (Augustin Calmet, Jacques Bénigne Bousset, Claude Fleury).

Translations

• Discorso sopra la storia universale (1712 Bossuet / Canturani), book

• La storia dell'Antico e Nuovo Testamento (1725 Calmet / Canturani), book (Italian ed.)

• Costumi degl'Israeliti, e de' cristiani (1728 Fleury / Canturani), book (Italian ed.)

External links

• Treccani.it