Camillo Almici

Camillo Almici (2 November 1714 – 30 December 1779 ) was a Catholic priest and academic of the Congregation of the Oratory.

Biography Almici was born at Brescia, of a noble family. He became a member of the Congregation of the Oratory at a very early age, and devoted himself to the study of theology, Greek, and Hebrew, the Bible, chronology, religious and secular history, antiquities, criticism, diplomacy, and liturgy. He gained a strong reputation among his contemporaries for his scholarship.

His brother Giambattista Almici was a celebrated Italian jurist.

Works

Of the many works he wrote, the principal are the following:

(1766) (1770) (1765, 2 vols.) (1765)