Filippo Buonarroti (M / Italy, 1661-1733), scholar

Filippo Buonarroti (1661-1733) was an Italian scholar and the author in 1716 of a pioneering work on the iconography of the catacombs.

• Archaeologists -- Rome -- Catacombs
• Early Christian Studies -- Italian language

Works

Books

• Osservazioni sopra alcuni frammenti di vasi antichi di vetro ornati di figure trovati ne' cimiteri di Roma (1716 Buonarroti), book

Biography

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Filippo Buonarroti was born in Florence [Italy] on November 28, 1661. The great-grandnephew of Michelangelo was an officer at the court of the Gran Duke of Tuscany and an antiquarian, renowned for his studies in Etruscan art. In 1716 he was the author of a pioneering work on the iconography of the catacombs. Buonarroti died in Florence [Italy] on December 10, 1733.