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See also:MAI, ANGELO (1782—1854) , See also:Italian See also:cardinal and philologist, was See also:born of humble parents at Schilpario in the See also:province of See also:Bergamo, See also:Lombardy, on the 7th of See also:March 1782. In 1799 he entered the Society of Jesus, and in 1804 he became a teacher of See also:classics in the See also:college of See also:Naples. After completing his studies at the Collegium Romanum, he lived for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time at See also:Orvieto, where he was engaged in teaching and palaeographical studies. The See also:political events of 18o8 necessitated his withdrawal from See also:Rome (to which he had meanwhile returned) to See also:Milan, where in 1813 he was made custodian of the Ambrosian library. He now threw himself with characteristic See also:energy and zeal into the task of examining the numerous See also:MSS. committed to his See also:charge, and in the course of the next six years was able to restore to the See also:world a considerable number of See also:long-lost See also:works. Having withdrawn from the Society of Jesus, he was invited to Rome in 1819 as See also:chief keeper of the Vatican library. In 1833 he was transferred to the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of secretary of the See also:congregation of the Propaganda; on the 12th of See also:February 1838 he was raised to the dignity of cardinal. He died at Castelgandolfo, near Albano, on the 8th of See also:September 1854.
It is on his skill as a reader of palimpsests that Mai's fame chiefly rests. To the See also:period of his See also:residence at Milan belong: Fragments of See also:Cicero's See also:Pro Scauro, Pro Tullio, Pro Flacco, In Clodium et Curionem, De aere alieno Milonis, De rege (Alexandrino (1814); M. See also:Corn. Frontonis See also:opera inedita, cum epistolic See also:item ineditis, Antonini Pii, Marci Aurelii, Lucii Veri et See also:Appiani (1815; new ed., 1823, with mor 2 than See also:loo additional letters found in the Vatican library); portions of eight speeches of See also:Quintus Aurelius See also:Symmachus; fragments of See also:Plautus; the oration of See also:Isaeus De hereditate Cleonymi; the last nine books of the Antiquities of See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus, and a number of other works. M. Tullii Ciceronis de republica quae.supersunt appeared at Rome in 1822; Scriptorum veterum nova collectio, e vaticanis codicibus edita in 1825—1838; Classici scriptores e vaticanis codicibus editi in 1828—1838; Spicilegium romanum in 1839—1844; and Patrum nova bibliotheca in 1845—1853. His edition of the celebrated Codex vaticanus, completed in 1838, but not published (ostensiblyon the ground of inaccuracies) till four years after his See also:death (1858), is the least satisfactory of his labours and was superseded by the edition of Vercellone and Cozza (1868), which itself leaves much to be desired. Although Mai was not as successful in textual See also:criticism as in the decipherment of See also:manuscripts, he will always be remembered as a laborious and persevering See also:pioneer, by whose efforts many See also:ancient writings have been rescued from oblivion.
See B. See also:Prina, Biografia del cardinale Angelo Mai (Bergamo, 1882), a scientific See also:work, which gives a full and, at the same time, a just appreciation of his work; Cozza-Luzi, Epistolario del card. Angelo Mai (Bergamo, 1883) ; See also:life by G. Poletto (See also:Siena, 1887).
End of Article: MAI, ANGELO (1782—1854)
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