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Mezzofanti's Tombstone
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This is Cardinal Mezzofanti's tombstone on the exterior wall of Sant'Onofrio Church on the Janiculum hill in Rome.

Mezzofanti tombstone

Original text

HEIC · IN · SEDE · HONORIS · SUI

SITUS · EST

JOSEPHUS · MEZZOFANTI · S · R · E · CABD

INNOCENTIA · MORUM · ET · PIETATE · MEMORANDUS

ITEMQUE · OMNIUM · DOCTRINARUM

AC · ETERTJM · NOVORUMQUE · IDIOMATUM· SCIENTIA

PLANE · SINGULARIS · ET · FAMA · ULTIORI · ORBI

NOTISSIMUS

BONONIAE · NATUS · AN · MDCCLXXIV

ROMAE · DECESSIT · AN · MDCCCXLVIIII

Translation

Can a Latin-speaking forum member please translate Mezzofanti's tombstone for us?

I can venture to translate the following parts altough by Church Latin epigraphy is really basic:

 

BORN · IN · BOLOGNA · YEAR · 1774

DECEASED · IN · ROME · YEAR · 1849




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