Angelo Fabbroni
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Angelo Fabbroni (September 25, 1732 - September 22, 1803), was an Italian biographer.
He was born at Marradi in Tuscany. After studying at Faenza he entered the Roman college founded for the education of young Tuscans.
On the conclusion of his studies he continued his stay in Rome, and having been introduced to the celebrated Jansenist Bottari, received from him the canonry of Santa Teresa in Trastevere. Some time after this he was chosen to preach a discourse in the pontifical chapel before Benedict XIV and made such a favorable impression that the pontiff settled on him an annuity, with the possession of which Fabbroni was able to devote his whole time to study. He was intimate with Leopold Peter, grand-duke of Tuscany (and later, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor), but the Jesuits disliked him on account of his Jansenist views.
Besides his other literary labors he began at Pisa in 1771 a literary journal, which he continued till 1796. About 1772 he made a journey to Paris, where he formed the acquaintance of Condorcet, Diderot, d'Alembert, Rousseau and most of the other eminent Frenchmen of the day. He also spent four months in London. He died at Pisa.
His principal works were: Vitae Italorum doctrina excellentium qui saeculis XVII et XVIII floruerunt (20 vols., Pisa, 1778-1799, 1804-1805) (the last two volumes, published posthumously, contain a life of the author); Laurentii Medicei Magnifici Vita (2 vols., Pisa, 1784), a work which served as a basis for H. Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo dei Medici; Leonis X pontificis maximi Vita (Pisa, 1797); and Elogi di Dante Alighieri, di Angela Poliziano, di Lodovico Ariosto, e di Torq. Tasso (Parma, 1800).
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