Angelo Fabroni

Angelo Fabroni (1732 - 1803) was an Italian historian.

Born at Marradi, near Florence, Fabroni was a priest, and head of the University of Pisa, from 1769. He became an editor of Giornale de' letterati in 1771. In 1773 Fabroni published a collection of Galileo's telescopic discoveries of 1610, the anti-Copernican decree of 1616, and the activities of Prince Leopold de' Medici between 1639 and 1671. Fabroni then published a second volume in 1775 of correspondence involving the trial of 1633 and Leopold's activities from the 1650s to the 1670s.

Most of the published documents that he gathered were from the Medici archives. This was meant to be a companion to a twenty volume biographical encyclopedia, Lives of Italians. He edited these between 1778 and 1803. Two more volumes appeared after Fabroni's death.

References

• Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (2005). University of California Press. Berkeley and Los Angeles. ISBN 0-520-24261-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)