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BANDINI, ANGELO MARIA (1726—1800)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 313 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANDINI, ANGELO MARIA (1726—1800) , See also:Italian author, was See also:born at See also:Florence on the 25th of See also:September 1726. Having been See also:left an See also:orphan in his See also:infancy, he was supported by his See also:uncle, Giuseppe Bandini, a lawyer of some See also:note. He received his See also:education among the See also:Jesuits, and showed a See also:special inclination for the study of antiquities. His first See also:work was a dissertation, De Veterum Saltationibus (4749). In 1747 he undertook a See also:journey to See also:Vienna, in See also:company with the See also:bishop of See also:Volterra, to whom he acted in the capacity of secretary. He was introduced to the See also:emperor and took the opportunity of dedicating to that monarch his Specimen Litteraturae Florentinae, which was then See also:printing at Florence. On his return he took orders, and settled at See also:Rome, passing the whole of his See also:time in the library of the Vatican, and in those of the cardinals Passionei and See also:Corsini. The famous See also:obelisk of See also:Augustus, at that time disinterred from the ruins of the Campus See also:Martius, was described by Bandini in a learned See also:folio See also:volume De Obelisco See also:Augusti. Shortly after he was compelled to leave Rome on See also:account of his See also:health and returned to Florence, where he was appointed librarian to the valuable library bequeathed to the public by the See also:abbe Marucelli. In 1756 he was preferred by the emperor to a prebend at Florence, and appointed See also:principal librarian to the Laurentian library. During See also:forty-four years he continued to See also:discharge the duties of this situation, and died in 1800, generally esteemed and regretted. On his deathbed he founded a public school, and bequeathed the See also:remainder of his See also:fortune to other charitable purposes.

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works are the Catalogus Codd. See also:MSS. Graec., See also:Lat., Ital., Bib., See also:Laurent., 8 vols (1767-1778), and the Vitae Lettere d' Amerigo See also:Vespucci, 1745.

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