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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARCHESE DI

FRANCESCO SCIPIONE MAFFEI (1675-1755)  ,
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Italian archaeologist and man of letters, was born at Verona on the 1st of
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June 1675 . He studied for five years in
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Parma, at the Jesuit College, and afterwards from 1698 at Rome; and in 1703–1704 he took
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part as a volunteer in the war of succession, fighting on the Bavarian side at Donauwerth In 1709 he began at Padua along with Apostolo
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Zeno and Valisnieri the Giornale dei letterati d'Italia, a
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literary periodical which had but a short career; and subsequently an acquaintance with the actor Riccoboni led him to exert himself for the improvement of dramatic
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art in Italy . His
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Merope, a tragedy, appeared in 1713; Teatro italiano, a small collection of
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works for presentation on the stage, in, 1723–1725; and Le Ceremonie, an
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original
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comedy, in 1728 . From 1718 he became specially interested in the archaeology of his native
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town, and his investigations resulted in the valuable Verona illustrata (1731–1732)• Maffei afterwards devoted four years to travel in France, England, Holland and Germany . He died at Verona on the 11th of
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February 1755 . A
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complete edition of his works appeared at Venice (28 vols., 8vo) in 1790 .

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