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GRAVINA, GIOVANNI VINCENZO (1664—1718)

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GRAVINA, GIOVANNI VINCENZO (1664—1718) , See also:Italian litterateur and jurisconsult, was See also:born at Roggiano, a small See also:town near See also:Cosenza, in See also:Calabria, on the 2oth of See also:January 1664. He was descended from a distinguished See also:family, and under the direction of his maternal See also:uncle, Gregorio Caloprese, who possessed some reputation as a poet and philosopher, received a learned See also:education, after which he studied at See also:Naples See also:civil and See also:canon See also:law. In 1689 he came to See also:Rome, where in 1695 he See also:united with several others of See also:literary tastes in forming the See also:Academy of Arcadians. A See also:schism occurred in the academy in 1711, and Gravina and his followers founded in opposition to it the Academy of Quirina. From See also:Innocent See also:YII. Gravina received the offer of various ecclesiastical honours, but declined them from a disinclination to enter the clerical profession. In 1699 he was appointed to the See also:chair of civil law in the See also:college of La Sapienza, and in 1703 he was transferred to the chair of canon law. He died at Rome on the 6th of January 1718. He was, the adoptive See also:father of See also:Metastasio. Gravina is the author of a number of See also:works of See also:great erudition, the See also:principal being his Origines See also:juris See also:civilis, completed in 3 vols. (1713) and his De Romano imperio (1712). A See also:French See also:translation of the former appeared in 1775, of which a second edition was published in 1822.

His collected works were published at See also:

Leipzig in 1737, and at Naples, with notes by Mascovius, in 1756.

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