Ungarelli, Luigi Maria, Italian egyptologist and Barnabite (1779-1845). Autograph manuscript signed.

N. p., [1823].

4to. Latin manuscript on paper. 1½ pp.

 350.00

Beautiful manuscript of Ungarelli's extensive obituary for his fellow Barnabite Antonio Maria Grandio (1761-1822), published with slight departures in the "Effemeridi letterarie di Roma" (1823), pp. 266f.

Luigi Maria Ungarelli was a student of Ippolito Rosellini, the first Italian disciple of Jean-François Champollion and a participant in Champollion's Egyptian expedition of 1828-29. From 1839 Ungarelli was the first curator of the newly-founded Gregorian Egyptian Museum, today a part of the Vatican Museum.

Insignificant foxing; well preserved.

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