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FEA, CARLO (1753-1836)

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FEA, CARLO (1753-1836) , See also:Italian archaeologist, was See also:born at Pigna in See also:Piedmont on the 2nd of See also:February 1753, and studied See also:law in See also:Rome. He received the degree of See also:doctor of See also:laws from the university of La Sapienza, but See also:archaeology gradually 'absorbed his See also:attention, and with the view of obtaining better opportunities for his researches in 1798 he took orders. For See also:political reasons he was obliged to take See also:refuge in See also:Florence; on his return in 1799 he was imprisoned by the Neapolitans, at that See also:time in occupation of Rome, as a Jacobin, but shortly afterwards liberated and appointed Commissario delle Antichita and librarian to See also:Prince Chigi. He died at Rome on the 18th of See also:March 1836. Fea revised, with notes, an Italian See also:translation of - J. J. See also:Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst, and also added notes to some of G. L. Rianconi's See also:works. Among his See also:original writings the See also:principal are:—Miscellanea filologica, crilica, e antiquaria; L'Integritd del Panteone rivendicata a M. See also:Agrippa; Frammenti di See also:fasti consolari; Iscriziani di monumenti pubblichi; and Descrizione di See also:Roma.

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