Giovanni Giustino Ciampini (Lat. Ciampinus)
Giovanni Giustino Ciampini (Lat. Ciampinus) [1]
Ciampini (Lat. Ciampinus), Giovanni Giustino
an Italian historian, was born at Rome, April (or August) 13, 1633, studied law, but devoted himself to antiquities, enjoyed several offices at the pontifical court, founded a scientific school, and died July, 12, 1698. He wrote, De Duobus Emblematibus in Cimelio Cardinalis Carpini Asservatis (Rome, 1691): — An Pontifex Romanus Baculo Pastorali Utatur (ibid. 1690): — De Sacris Edificiis a Constantino Magno Constructis (ibid. 1693): — De Perpetuo Azymorum usu in Ecclesia Lat. (ibid. 1688): — De Cruce Stationali (ibid. 1774): — Examen Libri Pontificalis (ibid. 1688). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:573, 613, 620, 632, 635, 680; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)
