Giammaria Mazzucchelli

He began with numerous scholarly and accurate biographies of ancient and more modern authors, e.g., Archimedes,^[2] Pietro Aretino,^[3] Lodovico Adimari,^[4] Luigi Alamanni, Matteo and Filippo Villani^[5]). From this experience, he conceived an ambitious plan to collect biographies of all the writers of Italy from the earliest times, including the history of their works. In this endeavor, he relied on the Queriniana library in Brescia, donated by the Cardinal Angelo Maria Quirini, and his extensive correspondence with the scholars of Italy and Europe. He began to compile a dictionary of great writers of Italy, but the work remained unfinished because of his untimely death.^[6] However, Mazzuchelli opened the way to the history of Italian literature, recognized by Girolamo Tiraboschi in the Introduction of his greatest work,^[7] and subsequent historians. Much of Mazzuchelli's unpublished material is still in manuscript form in the Vatican Library. A copy is also in the collection of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma.

• "Mazzuchelli (Count Giovanni Maria)." In: Louis-Maïeul Chaudon, Nouvelle Dictionnaire Historique, Michele Morelli, 1791. Volume XVII, pp. 407–410 (Google Books)
• Lasagna, Paola (2008). "MAZZUCHELLI, Gian Maria". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 72. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.