Pier Francesco Foggini

Pier Francesco Foggini or Pietro Francisco Foggini (1713 – 31 May 1783) was an Italian writer.

Pier Francesco Foggini
Born2 April 1713 
Florence 
Died17 June 1783  (aged 70)
Rome 
Occupation

Foggini, an Italian archaeologist, was born in 1713 at Florence, devoted himself to the Church, and was made doctor at Pisa. In 1741 he published De primis Florentinorum Apostolis, and an edition of Virgil (Florence, 4to). In 1742 Foggini accepted an invitation from Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, second librarian of the Vatican, to come to. Rome, where Benedict XIV gave him a place in the pontifical academy of history, and made him sub-librarian at the Vatican. In 1775 he succeeded Bottari as librarian. He died at Rome on 31 May 1783. He devoted great part of his life to the study of the manuscripts of the Vatican; and published, besides the works already mentioned, Epiphanius, De. XII gemmis, etc. (Rome, 1743, 4to):—Epiphanius Salomo, Comment. in Calet. (Rome, 1750, 4to): — Appendix Historiae Byzantinae (Rome, 1777). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 18:35.

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