Joseph Allegranza

Joseph Allegranza (16 October 1715 – 18 December 1785) was a Milanese Dominican who won distinction as a historian, archaeologist, and antiquary.

From 1748 to 1754 Allegranza conducted research in northern and central Italy and in France. After being put in charge of the Royal Library at Milan, he made a catalogue of its contents, a work which was crowned, in 1775, by the Empress Maria Theresa.

Works

• Spiegazioni e riflessioni sopra alcuni sacri monumenti antichi di Milano (Milan, 1757)
• De sepulcris christianis in aedibus sacris. — Accedunt inscriptiones sepulcrales christianae saeculo septimo antiquiores in Insubria Austriaca repertae: item Inscriptiones sepulcrales ecclesiarum atque aedium PP. Ord. Praed. Mediolani (Milan, 1773)
• De Monogrammate D. N. Jesu Christi et usitatis ejus effingendi modis (Milan, 1773)
• Opuscoli eruditi latini ed italiani (Cremona, 1781)
• Osservazioni antiquarie critiche e fisiche fatte nel regno di Sicilia (Milan, 1781)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Dwight, Walter (1907). "Joseph Allegranza". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.