Luigi Bossi

Bust of Bossis in the courtyard of the Palazzo di Brera in Milan

Luigi Bossi , (born February 28, 1758 in Milan , † April 10, 1835 ibid) was an Italian archivist , historian and writer .

Bossi studied law and natural sciences, and during the Cisalpine Republic he was employed by Bonaparte as an agent of the French government in Turin.

After the unification of Piedmont with France in 1803, he rose to the position of Prefect of the Archives of the Kingdom of Italy.

Works

• Observations sur le vase que l'on conservait à Gênes sous le nom de Sacro Catino (Turin 1807),
• Adaptation of William Roscoe's "The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth" (Milan 1816–17, 12 vols.)
• Investigations into Christ. Columbus (1818)
• “Istoria d'Italia” (1816–23, 19 volumes).

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Bossi, Ludwig Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 89 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Lucia Sebastiani:  Bossi, Luigi. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 13:  Borremans – Brancazolo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1971.
• Giorgio F. Siboni: Luigi Bossi (1758-1835). Erudito e funzionario tra antico regime ed età napoleonica , Leone 2010, ISBN 88-6393-035-X

Individual evidence

1. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 3. Leipzig 1905, p. 258 [1]
2. ↑ Biography in Treccani, Luigi Bossi [2]