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FABBRONI, ANGELO (1732-1803)

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FABBRONI, ANGELO (1732-1803) , See also:Italian ;biographer, was See also:born at Marradi in See also:Tuscany on the 25th of See also:September 1732. After studying at See also:Faenza he entered the See also:Roman See also:college founded for the See also:education of See also:young Tuscans. On the conclusion of his studies he continued his stay in See also:Rome, and having been introduced to the celebrated Jansenist Bottari, received from him the canonry of See also:Santa Teresa in Trastevere. Some See also:time after this he was chosen to preach a discourse in the pontifical See also:chapel before See also:Benedict XIV. and made such a favourable impression that the pontiff settled on him an See also:annuity, with the See also:possession of which Fabbroni was able to devote his whole time to study. He wasintimate with See also:Leopold I., See also:grand-See also:duke of Tuscany, but the See also:Jesuits disliked him on See also:account of his Jansenist views. Besides his other See also:literary labours he began at See also:Pisa in 1771 a literary See also:journal, which he continued till 1796. About 1772 he made a See also:journey to See also:Paris, where he formed the acquaintance of See also:Condorcet, See also:Diderot, d'See also:Alembert, See also:Rousseau and most of the other eminent Frenchmen of the See also:day. He also spent four months in See also:London. He died at Pisa on the 22nd of September 18o3. The following are his See also:principal See also:works:—Vitae Italorum doctrina excellentium qui saeculis X VII. et X VIII. floruerunt (20 vols., Pisa, 1778—1799, 1804—1805), the last two vols., published posthumously, contain a See also:life of the author; Laurentii Medicei Magnifici Vita (2 vols., Pisa, 1784), a See also:work which served as a basis for H. See also:Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo dei See also:Medici; Leonis X. pontificis maximi Vita (Pisa, 1797) ; and Elogi di See also:Dante Alighieri, di Angelo Poliziano, di Lodovico See also:Ariosto, e di Torq. See also:Tasso (See also:Parma, 1800).

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