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MILANESI, GAETANO (1813-1895)

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MILANESI, GAETANO (1813-1895) , See also:Italian See also:scholar and writer on the See also:history of See also:art, was See also:born at See also:Siena, where he studied See also:law, and in 1838 he obtained an See also:appointment in the public library. In 1856 he was elected member of the Accademia della Crusca, in which capacity he took See also:part in the compilation of its famous but still unfinished See also:dictionary, and two years later was appointed assistant keeper of the Tuscan archives, in See also:Florence; then he took See also:charge of the famous See also:Medici archives, whence he collected a vast See also:body of material on the history of Italian art, not all of which is yet published. In 1889 he became director of the archives, but retired in 1892, and died three years later. His most important publication is his edition of See also:Vasari's See also:works in nine volumes, with copious and valuable notes (Florence, 1878-1885). Of his other writings the following may be mentioned: Il diario inedito di Alessandro Sozzini (in the Archivio storico Italiano, 1842); Documenti per la storia dell' ante senese, 3 vols. (Siena, 1854-1856) and Discorsi See also:sulla storia civile ed artistica di Siena (Siena, 1862). He also edited a number of Italian See also:classics. See E. See also:Ridolfi's See also:article in the Nuova antologia (May 15, 1895) ; and A. Virgili's article in the Atli della regia Accademia della Crusca (Florence, 1898).

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