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ALLACCI, LEONE [LEO ALLATIUS] (1586-1669) , Greek scholar and theologian, was born in the island of Chios. His early years were passed in Calabria and at Rome, where he finally settled as teacher of Greek at the Greek college, at the same time devoting himself to the study of classics and theology. In 1622, after the capture of Heidelberg by Tilly, the elector Maximilian
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bear ample testimony to his immense learning, show an absence of the true critical faculty, and are full of intolerance, especially on religious subjects. For a list
majority of them are included in the MSS. of the Vallicellian library.The main source of our knowledge of Allatius is the incomplete life by Stephanus Gradi, Leonis Allatii vita, published by Cardinal Mai, in Nova Bibliotheca Patrum. A complete enumeration of his works. is contained in E. Legrand, Bibliographie hellenique du X VIe1"e siecle (Paris, 1895, iii. 435-471). The accounts of C. N. Sathas in NeoeAAnvcro) ctcXoXoyia (Athens, 1868), and of the pseudo-prince Demetrius Rhodokanakis, Leonis Allatii Hellas (Athens, 1872), are inaccurate and untrustworthy. For a special
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