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