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3 unusual facts about Angelo Mai


Angelo Mai

The texts were often in parchment palimpsests; he was able to read the lower text using chemicals such as Gallic acid.

fragments of Cicero's judicial orations Pro Scauro, Pro Tullio, Pro Flacco, and his In Clodium et Curionem, De aere alieno Milonis, and De rege Alexandrino (1814)

Cardinals created by Gregory XVI

# Angelo Mai, secretary of S. C. Propaganda Fide (in pectore, published on 12 February 1838) – cardinal priest of S. Anastasia (received the title on 15 February 1838), died 9 September 1854



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