Angelo Maria Bandini
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Angelo Maria Bandini (25 September 1726 – 1803) was an Italian author and librarian born in Florence.
Biography
Orphan since infancy, Angelo Maria was supported by his uncle,
The famous obelisk of Augustus, at that time removed from the ruins of Campus Martius, was described by Bandini in a learned folio volume entitled De Obelisco Augusti. Shortly after, he was compelled to leave Rome on account of his health and returned to Florence, where he was appointed librarian to the valuable Biblioteca Marucelliana bequeathed to the public by abbott Marucelli. In 1756 he was assigned by the emperor to a prebend at Florence, and appointed principal librarian to the Laurentian Library, vacant with the death of Antonio Maria Biscioni. Over forty-four years he continued to discharge the duties of this appointment, and died in 1803, generally esteemed and missed. On his deathbed he founded a public school and bequeathed the remainder of his fortune to other charitable purposes.
Bandini described some biblical manuscripts:
.Works
The most important of his numerous works are the Catalogus Codd. MSS. Graec., Lat., Ital., Bib., Laurent., 8 vols (1767–1778), and the Vita e Lettere d'Amerigo Vespucci, 1745.
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum, latinorum, italicorum etc, Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (1767–1778)
- Catalogus codicum bibliothecae Laurentianae 3. (Florentiae 1770)
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum latinorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (1774)
- Dissertazione sopra un antica tavoletta di avorio a il signor Cardinal Angelo Maria Querini (1747)
- Vita di Filippo Strozzi (1756), regarding Filippo Strozzi the Younger
- Memorie per servire alla vita del senatore Pier Vettori (1756), regarding Pier Vettori
References
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Rosa, Mario (1963). "BANDINI, Angelo Maria". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Online biography (in Italian)