Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi
Italian art historian (1837-1905)
Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi (24 December 1837 – 1 June 1905) was an Italian scholar and abbot of the Basilian monastery of Grottaferrata near Rome.
Biography
Cozza-Luzi was born in 1837 at Bolsena in the Province of Rome. In early youth he entered the ancient monastery of which he became abbot in 1882. Pius IX was attracted by his scholarship, as was later Leo XIII.
In 1898 he retired from his official duties and devoted himself to his studies. He won distinction by his edition of several ancient Vatican manuscripts and was also learned in the history of art and in archaeology. The Catholic Encyclopedia describes him as intelligent and cultured, but lacking in scientific accuracy and disorganized in his research.
He died in Rome on 1 June 1905.
Works
Under his direction the phototype edition of the Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 was executed, (Vetus et Novum Testamentum e Cod. Vaticano 1209 phototyp., 5 volumes fol., Rome, 1889), also a Vatican codex of the prophets (ibid., 1889), and from a Vatican manuscript the miniatures of Giulio Clovio to Dante's Paradiso. Nearly all the copies of these artistic publications perished at the burning of the Danesi establishment in Rome.
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