Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti [SEP] position held
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (19 September 1774 – 15 March 1849) was an Italian cardinal and famed hyperpolyglot.
Life.
Born to humble parents in Bologna, he showed exceptional mnemonic skills as well as a flair for music and foreign language learning from a very young age. He studied at the Piarists where he had the chance to meet several missionaries from various countries. By speaking with them he began learning several new languages including Swedish, German, Spanish and Southern American native languages as well as studying
died, and it was found that his second wife had built her new house of Hurstmonceaux Place on entailed land. The Hare-Naylors set off for England, leaving three of their children in the care of Clotilda Tambroni and Father Emmanuele Aponte, a Spanish priest, and appointing Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti tutor of their precocious eldest son.
The Hare-Naylors settled at Hurstmonceaux. Hare-Naylor's democratic principles made enemies, and he rejected a baronetcy. From 1799, when the Hare-Naylors fetched home their children,