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Francesco AngeloniFrancesco Angeloni (1587-1652) was an Italian writer, historian, and collector of classical antiquities. Born in Terni in Umbria - a region of Italy at that time part of the Papal States - he studied in Perugia then moved to Rome where he served as secretary of cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, nephew of pope Clement VIII. Angeloni dedicated most of his life in collecting antique coins, medaillons, books, paints, and archaeological objects and became notorious all over Europe with the publication in 1641 of his Historia Augusta, a hystory of ancient Rome since Julius Caesar to Constantine the Great, illustrated with antique coins of the times. He also wrote comedies and novels and noticeably, in 1646, a Storia di Terni, a history of his mother town. In his house, Angeloni raised and educated Giovanni Pietro Bellori, who also became a notorious antiquarian and archaeologist.
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