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The death of a brother, which threw upon him the care of an unprovided family of eleven children, was the severest trial sustained in Mezzofanti's otherwise comparatively quiet career; and by driving him to the ordinary expedient of distressed scholars that of giving private lectures it tended more than all his public occupations to trench upon his time, and to abridge his opportunities of application to his favourite study.
For Mezzofanti's marvellous and almost instinctive power of grasping and systematising the leading characteristics even of the most original language, the names of a few prominent ideas in the new idiom sufficed to open a first means of communication.
The admirable order in which the Greek and Oriental manuscripts are arranged, the excellent catalogue raisonné of these manuscripts, and the valuable additions to the notices of them by Assemani and Talmar which it contains, are all the fruit of Mezzofanti's labour as librarian.
Beyond this point, Mezzofanti's knowledge of languages was almost exclusively the result of his own unassisted study. From a very early age, he was destined for the church, and he received holy orders about the year 1797.
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