Francesco Maria Pratilli (16891763) was an Italian priest, scholar,
antiquarian, whose name is known, from the 19th century, for being involved in a vast series of skilled
forger
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ies.
Life and works
Born in
Santa Maria in Сapuа, where he was
canon
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** Western can ...
, he lived mostly in
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
where he died.
King
Charles III of Bourbon
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (17 February 1490 – 6 May 1527) was a French military leader, the count of Montpensier, Clermont and Auvergne, and dauphin of Auvergne from 1501 to 1523, then duke of Bourbon and duke of Auvergne, Auvergne, co ...
made him a member of the ''
Accademia Ercolanese The Accademia Ercolanese, in full Regale Accademia Ercolanese di Archeologia (Royal Herculaneum Academy of Archaeology), is a learned society established in Naples in 1755 by Bernardo Tanucci under the royal patronage of Charles VII of Naples with t ...
''.
Works
His writings span both ecclesiastical, theological,
numismatic
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects.
Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includ ...
topics, often disseminated by his historical forgeries.
Herbert Bloch
Herbert Bloch (18 August 1911 – 6 September 2006) was a professor of Classics at Harvard and a renowned authority on Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy and archaeology, medieval monasticism, and the transmission of classical culture and liter ...
, ''Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages'', Vol. 1, Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the reti ...
, 1986 (p. 222-224)
Among his works are:
*Della
Via Appia
The Appian Way (Latin and Italian: ''Via Appia'') is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy. Its importance is indicated by its common name, ...
, libro IV, Naples, 1745.
*Lettera sopra una moneta singolare del tiranno Giovanni, Naples 1748.
*Dissertazione su i consolari della
Campania
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, Naples, 1757.
*Della Metropolis ecclesiastica della chiesa di
Capua
Capua ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.
History
Ancient era
The name of Capua comes from the Etrusc ...
, Naples 1758.
*Relazione della concessione de' pontificati fatta da
Benedetto XIII
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al capitolo di Capua, Naples, 1725.
*Lettera sopra un antico marino in cui si fa parola di Giove Ortense, volumen 28 della raccolta del Calogera.
*Lettera sur l'antico equatutico.
*Lettera sur una moneta di
Guglielmo II il Buono.
*Lettera sur la colonia in
Bauli
Bacoli (; la, Bauli) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about west of Naples.
Geography
Bacoli borders the municipalities of Monte di Procida and Pozzuoli.
Its territory, o ...
.
*Vita di Camillo Pellegrino-De monasterio
Theanensi (volumen 1 della ''Historia principum Longobardorum'').
*De familia et patria Divi
Thomae de Aquino.
*De Ludovico Imperator Augusti captivate-De Liburia.
*''Chronicon Cavense'', an alleged 12th century chronicle, which in 1847, due to the conclusive work of
Pertz Pertz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Dorothea Pertz (1859–1939), British botanist
* Georg Heinrich Pertz (1795–1876), German historian
See also
* Rochelle Perts
Rochelle Perts (born 20 March 1992), better known b ...
and
Köpke,
Georg Heinrich Pertz
Georg Heinrich Pertz (28 March 17957 October 1876) was a German historian.
Personal life
Pertz was born in Hanover on 28 March 1795. His parents were the court bookbinder Christian August Pertz and Henrietta Justina née Deppen.
He married twi ...
e Rudolf Köpke
Rudolf Köpke (23 August 1813 – 10 June 1870) was a German historian born in Königsberg.
Biography
From 1832 he studied theology in Berlin, where his interest changed to history under the influence of Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886). With Ge ...
, ''Über das Chronicon Cavense und andere von Pratillo herausgegebene Quellenschriften'', in "Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde", IX (1847), Hannover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
, pp. 1-239 it revealed to be "one of the most audacious forgeries of the eighteenth century".
Herbert Bloch
Herbert Bloch (18 August 1911 – 6 September 2006) was a professor of Classics at Harvard and a renowned authority on Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy and archaeology, medieval monasticism, and the transmission of classical culture and liter ...
, ''Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages'', Vol. 1, Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the reti ...
, 1986 (p. 222)
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1763 deaths
1689 births
17th-century Neapolitan people
18th-century Neapolitan people
Italian antiquarians
Italian classical scholars
Forgers