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Life

Angelo Maria travelled to Poland-Lithuania in 1650 to enter the service of the king as a secretary. His eldest brother, Roberto Bandinelli, who had founded the postal service of

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, had been in royal service since 1629. At the death of Carlo Montelupi, postmaster general, in 1662, Angelo Maria, formerly his rival, was appointed as his successor. He served as postmaster general until 1670, when he returned to Italy to enter the service of

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* R. Mazzei, "I Bandinelli di Firenze fra Toscana e Polonia (secoli XVII-XVIII)", in ''Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, Prace Historyczne'', 110 (1994), pp. 163-173. Postmasters of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 17th-century Italian people 17th-century births 17th-century deaths Italian expatriates in Poland {{Italy-bio-stub