Ciantar, Giovanni Antonio, 1696-1778

Count Giovanni Antonio Ciantar was a lawyer, poet, historian, archaeologist. Ciantar studied law and theology in Rome before becoming a jurat in the università. A noted scholar, he was a member of the Accademia senese degli intronati and of the Società Colombaria fiorentina. He is noted for his treatise against the Benedictine Ignjat Đurđević (1675-1737), who argued that Mjlet (Croatia), not Malta, was the location of Saint Paul's shipwreck as described in Acts 27-28.

HMML ID
353466459044
PURL
https://w3id.org/haf/person/353466459044
LC name
Ciantar, Giovanni Antonio, 1696-1778
HMML name
Ciantar, Giovanni Antonio, 1696-1778
VIAF
https://viaf.org/viaf/37082122

Variants

  • Ciantar, Giovannantonio
  • Ciantar, Jean Antoine
  • Ciantar, Jo: Antonio
  • Ciantar, Joannis Antonii
  • Ciantar, Johann A.
  • Ciantar, Johannes A.
  • Ciantar, Johannes Antonius
  • Gravanti, Nonio Cataniano

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Giovanni ● Antonio
Family names
Ciantar

Personal information

Birth date
1696-09-04
Death date
1778-11-14
Centuries
17th century CE ● 18th century CE
Gender
Males
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Conte
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General notes

Description
Giovanni Antonio Ciantar; uses pseudonym Nonio Catiniano Gravanti in 1763.
Citations
Giuseppe Valentinelli, Bibliografia della Dalmazia e del Montenegro (Zagreb: Dr. Ljudevito Gaj, 1855), 239.
Description
Ciantar, Joh. Ant. comes; title as conte
Citations
Friedrich von Hellwald, Bibliographie méthodique de l'Ordre souv. de St. Jean de Jérusalem (Rome: Imprimerie polyglotte, 1885), 304.
Description
Giovanni Antonio Ciantar; date of birth and death, place of birth and death, studies in Rome, occupations, fields of activity, membership to Italian academies
Citations
Noel Muscat and Sandro Tomašević, Melita Illyrica and Melita Africana: The Islands of Saint Paul (Malta: Commissariat of the Holy Land, 2018), un-paginated.

Preferred citation

"Ciantar, Giovanni Antonio, 1696-1778." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified January 18, 2024. https://w3id.org/haf/person/353466459044

Change notes

Date added
2022-01-23
Last edited
2024-01-18