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GAETANO MILANESI (1813-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 441 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MILANESI (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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