Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi

Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi (21 October 1684 – 12 September 1771) was an Italian priest, antiquary and philologist.

[1] In 1711 he was made a canon of the Cathedral of Capua and in 1735 he was appointed professor of theology and Sacred Scripture at the University of Naples.

[4] Mazzocchi was a friend of Francesco Scipione Maffei, Jacopo Facciolati and Ludovico Antonio Muratori.

[2] He was a member of several learned societies, including the Accademia Ercolanese and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

He published also an improved edition of Vossius' Etymologicon linguae Latinae (Naples, 1762) and dissertations on Hebrew poetry and on the Antiquities of the Roman Campagna.

Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi, In vetus marmoreum sanctae Neapolitanae ecclesiae kalendarium commentarius , Naples, Novello De Bonis, 1744