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BARTOLOMMEO See also:BORGHESI (1781-1860) , See also:Italian antiquarian, was See also:born at Savignano, near See also:Rimini, on the 11th of See also:July 1781 . He studied at See also:Bologna and See also:Rome . Having weakened his eyesight by the study of documents of the See also:middle ages, he turned his See also:attention to See also:epigraphy and See also:numismatics . At Rome he arranged and catalogued several collections of coins, amongst them those of the Vatican, a task which he undertook for See also:Pius VII . In consequence of the disturbances of 1821, See also:Borghesi retired to See also:San See also:Marino, where he died on the 16th of See also:April 186o . Although mainly an enthusiastic student, he was for some See also:time See also:podesta of the little See also:republic . His monumental See also:work, Nuovi Frammenti dei See also:Fasti Consolari Capitolini (1818-182o), attracted the attention of the learned See also:world as furnishing See also:positive bases for the See also:chronology of See also:Roman See also:history, while his contributions to Italian archaeological See also:journals established his reputation as a numismatist and antiquarian . Before his See also:death, Borghesi conceived the See also:design of See also:publishing a collection of all the Latin See also:inscriptions of the Roman world . The work was taken up by the See also:Academy of See also:Berlin under the auspices of See also:Mommsen, and the result was the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum . See also:Napoleon III. ordered the publication of a See also:complete edition of the See also:works of Borghesi . This edition, in ten volumes, of which the first appeared in 1862, was not completed until 1897 . |
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