Francesco Angeloni

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Francesco Angeloni

Francesco Angeloni (* 1587 in Terni , † November 29, 1652 in Rome ) was an Italian antiquarian, official of the curia , writer and collector.

life and work

Francesco Angeloni was born as the son of Giovan Pietro Angeloni and Prantilla Pontani in Terni, which at that time belonged to the Papal States. After studying in Perugia , he went to Rome around 1602/1603, where he entered the service of Cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandinis, later Pope Clement VIII , as secretary on the recommendation of Erminio Valenti (1564-1618) . In 1605 Camillo Borghese was elected Pope as Paul V. Angeloni, who took part in the coronation celebrations, wrote a report about it that he wrote in Rome in 1606 under the title Relatione et viaggio fatto dalla S. t. di N. s. re Papa Paolo V nell'andare a prendere il possesso della sacrosanta basilica lateranense published. As a result, he was hired in the Curia as protonotario apostolico , a body of eleven notaries who looked after the files of the papal administration.

Angeloni owned a house in Via Orsina on the Pincio , where his nephew Giovanni Pietro Bellori also lived from 1634 . In his will he bequeathed the house and collection to his nephew, who after Angeloni's death only kept the house while the family took possession of the collection. The collection, which was scattered after Angeloni's death, contained around 600 drawings by Annibale Carracci , an extensive library and an unusually diverse collection of curiosities, which were popular at the time .

Angeloni devoted a large part of his life to collecting ancient coins and medals, he collected books, pictures and graphics as well as archaeological artifacts and gained an excellent reputation throughout Europe as an antiquarian and expert on antiquity. He was part of a network of European scholars, art lovers, artists and writers who were interested in antiquity. Among them were in Rome a. a. the brothers Agostino and especially Annibale Carracci , a protégé of the Farnese , the painters Nicolas Poussin and Domenichino , the papal state secretary, diplomat and art theorist Giovanni Battista Agucchi (1570–1632), the historian Malvasia , the antiquarian and secretary Maffeo Barberinis , Cassiano dal Pozzo , and Angeloni's nephew, the art theorist and art historian Giovanni Pietro Bellori .

La historia Augusta da Giulio Cesare infino a Costantino il Magno

His first book La historia Augusta da Giulio Cesare infino a Costantino il Magno came out in 1641 with an engraving by Giovanni Lanfranco . The book is a treatise on Roman numismatics . In the appendix it contains a table with engravings of Roman coins, an extensive register of persons and subjects as well as dedications to Pope Urban VIII and - in French and Italian - to Louis XIII. from France. Interspersed in the text are passages of praise about contemporary artists such as Michelangelo , Raffael , Titian , the Carracci brothers, Annibale Carracci's pupil Domenichino , Guido Reni , Lanfranco and the young Poussin .

Fonts

Historical works
  • La historia Augusta da Giulio Cesare à Costantino il Magno. Illustrata con la verità delle antiche medaglie da Francesco Angeloni. Roma, Andrea Fei, 1641.
  • Historia di Terni . Roma: Andrea Fei 1646.
  • Dell'utilità della numismatica . Lettera inedita. Venezia: Pinelli 1811. [first edition]
Comedies
  • Gli irragionevoli amori . Venezia: Bizzardo 1611.
  • Flora . 1614.

literature

  • Pompeo de Angelis: Francesco Angeloni nella cultura del Seicento . La vita e le opere di Francesco Angeloni ternano ed europeo. [1] Full text, Italian
  • Anna Buiatti:  Angeloni, Francesco. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 3:  Ammirato – Arcoleo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1961.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giovanni Pietro Bellori: The Lifes of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. A New Translation and Critical Edition. Introduction by Tommaso Montanari. Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. p. 5.
  2. ^ Anne Summerscale: Malvasias's life of the Carracci. Commentary and translation. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Univ. Press. 2000. p. 10.
  3. ^ Giovanni Pietro Bellori: The Lifes of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. A New Translation and Critical Edition. Introduction by Tommaso Montanari. Cambridge Univ. Press., 2005, p. 5.
  4. ↑ levelctioneers, 2014, lot 0592
  5. ^ Full text of the first edition, Padua 1614 .
personal data
SURNAME Angeloni, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian antiquarian, curia official, writer and collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1587
PLACE OF BIRTH Terni
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1652
Place of death Rome