Everything about Bartolomeo Borghesi totally explained
Bartolomeo (also
Bartolommeo)
Borghesi (
11 July 1781 –
16 April 1860) was an
Italian antiquarian who was a key figure in establishing the science of
numismatics.
He was born at
Savignano, near
Rimini, and studied at
Bologna and
Rome. Having weakened his eyesight by the study of documents of the middle ages, he turned his attention to
epigraphy and numismatics. At Rome he arranged and cataloged several collections of coins, amongst them those of the
Vatican, a task which he undertook for
Pope Pius VII. In consequence of the disturbances of
1821, Borghesi retired to
San Marino, where he died in April 1860.
Although mainly an enthusiastic student, he was for some time
podestà of the little republic. His monumental work,
Nuovi Frammenti dei Fasti Consolari Capitolini (1818–1820), attracted the attention of the learned world as furnishing positive bases for the chronology of
Roman history, while his contributions to Italian archaeological journals established his reputation as a numismatist and antiquarian.
Before his death, Borghesi conceived the design of publishing a collection of all the Latin inscriptions of the Roman world. The work was taken up by the
Academy of Berlin under the auspices of
Theodor Mommsen, and the result was the
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.
Napoleon III ordered the publication of a complete edition of the works of Borghesi. This edition, in ten volumes, of which the first appeared in 1862, wasn't completed until 1897.
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