Emanuele Repetti (1776–1852) was an Italian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and

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who wrote extensively on the history of

Tuscany Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Florence. Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...

. He was born in

Carrara Carrara ( ; ; , ) is a town and ''comune'' in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey Carrara marble, marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some Boxing the compass, ...

.Italian Institute of Archaeology, University of Siena http://www.archeogr.unisi.it/repetti/paginerep/biorep.html

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He contributed to the ''Antologia of Vieusseux'' and the ''Atti'' of the

Accademia dei Georgofili The Accademia dei Georgofili (Academy of Georgofili) is an educational institution in Florence, Italy. It was established in 1753. The academy has been a historic institution for over 250 years, and is best known for promoting, amongst scholars a ...

, of which he was

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. From 1833 to 1846, he published the ''Dizionario geografico, fisico e storico della Toscana'', which offers an account of the natural and

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history of

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. His work was primarily cultural, historical, linguistic and archaeological in nature.

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