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Ambrogio Del Giudice, also known as Ambrosius de Altamura or just Altamura (Altamura, November 16, 1608 - 1677), was an Italian Dominican and historian.

Life
Born in Altamura, Italian city located in the Kingdom of Naples (that's why he was called Ambrosius Altamura or just Altamura), Ambrogio del Giudice was a member of the del Giudice family. After being ordained fray of the Dominican Order in the Altamura's Dominican monastery (probably "Convento di San Rocco") and completed all the degrees of study available in his hometown, in 1647 he was appointed  Master of "Capitolo generale" of the Kingdom of Valencia. He was also appointed regent of Saint Dominic in the city of Andria. He died in 1677.

He's best known for his work Bibliotechae Dominicanae (1677), some kind of historical compendium of prominent personalities from the Middle Ages until the 17th centruy, among which many were personalities somehow related to the Dominican Order. This work was then cited and used by many subsequent historians, such as Jacques Quétif and Jacques Echard inside their work Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum (1721). Despite his notoriety, the above authors Quetif and Echard also noted some inaccuracies and mistakes in Ambrogio del Giudice's work. He also wrote other works, some of which have survived and are stored in a few Italian libraries. Other works such as the Chronologia, which Ambrogio del Giudice himself cites in his own Bibliotechae Dominicanae went lost; the Chronologia wasn't published or lost as early as year 1753.