Francesco Inghirami (1772-1846) was an Italian archeologist and author.
He was born to a prominent family from
Volterra
Volterra (; Latin: ''Volaterrae'') is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods.
History
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(1779 – 1851) was a prominent astronomer and Catholic priest. His brother Marcello was a prominent alabaster sculptor. As a young man, Francesco fought in the
Napoleonic wars
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in 1799. He then returned to Tuscany, where he began collecting mainly
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antiquities. He founded a college at
Fiesole
Fiesole () is a town and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a scenic height above Florence, 5 km (3 miles) northeast of that city. It has structures dating to Etruscan and Roman times.
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. He published illustrations of some of his collections in his ten volume ''Monumenti etruschi'' (1820–1827), ''Galleria Omerica'' (also titled ''Raccolta di monumenti antichi esibita dal cav. Francesco Inghirami per servire allo studio dell'Illiade e dell'Odissea'' 3 volumes, 1829–1851), ''Pitture di vasi fittili'' (1831-1837), ''Museo etrusco chiusino'' (2 volumes, 1833), and the incomplete ''Storia della Toscana'' (1841-1845). He illustrated and engraved many if not most of the drawings for these texts.
[The Encyclopædia Britannica: by Hugh Chisholm, Paul Robert Kruse · 1910.]
Gallery of Illustrations
File:INGHIRAMI(1837) Pitture di vasi fittili Vol4 T301.jpg, Illustration from Pitture di vasi Fittili
File:INGHIRAMI(1835) Pitture di vasi fittili Vol3 T251.jpg, Illustration from Pitture di vasi Fittili
File:INGHIRAMI(1821) Bronzi etruschi - T 15.jpg, Illustration from ''Monumenti etruschi''
File:Monumenti Etruschi o di Etrusco nome (1821) (14800234903).jpg, Illustration from ''Monumenti etruschi''
References
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1772 births
1846 deaths
19th-century Italian archaeologists
Etruscologists
Italian engravers
18th-century Italian writers
People from Volterra