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FABRETTI, RAPHAEL (1618–1700)
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See also:FABRETTI, See also:RAPHAEL (1618–1700) , See also:Italian See also:antiquary, was See also:born in 1618 at See also:Urbino in See also:Umbria. He studied See also:law at See also:Cagli and Urbino, where he took the degree of See also:doctor at the See also:age of eighteen. While in See also:Rome he attracted the See also:notice of See also:Cardinal Lorenzo Imperiali, who employed him successively as treasurer and auditor of the papal See also:legation in See also:Spain, where he remained thirteen years. Meanwhile, his favourite classical and antiquarian studies were not neglected; and on his return See also:journey he made important observations of the See also:relics and monuments of Spain, See also:France and See also:Italy. At Rome he was appointed See also:judge of appellation of the Capitol, which See also:post he See also:left to be auditor of the legation at Urbino. After three years he returned to Rome, on the invitation of Cardinal Carpegna, See also:vicar of See also:Innocent XI., and devoted himself to antiquarian See also:research, examining with See also:minute care the monuments and See also:inscriptions of the Campagna. He always rode a See also:horse which his See also:friends nicknamed Marco See also:Polo," after the Venetian traveller. By Innocent XII. he was made keeper of the archives of the See also:castle St Angelo, a See also:charge which he retained till his See also:death. He died at Rome on the 7th of See also:January 1700. His collection of inscriptions and monuments was See also:purchased by Cardinal See also:Stoppani, and placed in the ducal See also:palace at Urbino, where they may still be seen. His See also:work De Aquis et •Aquae-ductibus veteris Romae (168o), three See also:dissertations on the See also:topography of See also:ancient See also:Latium, is inserted in See also:Graevius's See also:Thesaurus, iv. (1677). His See also:interpretation of certain passages in See also:Livy and other classical authors involved him in a dispute with See also:Gronovius, which See also:bore a strong resemblance to that between See also:Milton and See also:Salmasius, Gronovius addressing Fabretti as See also:Faber Rusticus, and the latter, in reply, speaking of Grunnovius and his titivilitia. In this controversy Fabretti used the See also:pseudonym Iasitheus, which he afterwards took as his See also:pastoral name in the See also:Academy of the Arcadians. His other See also:works, De Columna Trajani Syntagma (Rome, 1683), and Inscriptionum Antiquarum Explicatio (Rome, 1699), throw much See also:light on See also:Roman antiquity. In the former is to be found his explication of a bas-See also:relief, with inscriptions, now in the Capitol at Rome, representing the See also:war and taking of See also:Troy, known as the Iliac table. Letters and other shorter works of Fabretti are to be found in publications of the See also:time, as the See also:Journal See also:des Savants. See See also:Crescimbeni, Le Vite degli Arcadi illustri; Fabroni, Vitae Italorum, vi. 174; Niceron, iv. 372; J. Lainius, Memorabilia Italorum eruditione praestantium (See also:Florence, 1742–1748). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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