FABRETTI, RAPHAEL (16181700)

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FABRETTI, RAPHAEL (16181700) , Italian antiquary, was born in 1618 at Urbino in Umbria. He studied law at Cagli and Urbino, where he took the degree of

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

at the age of eighteen. While in Rome he attracted the notice of Cardinal Lorenzo Imperiali, who employed him successively as treasurer and auditor of the papal legation in Spain, where he remained thirteen years. Meanwhile, his favourite classical and antiquarian studies were not neglected; and on his return journey he made important observations of the relics and monuments of
Spain, France and Italy. At Rome he was appointed judge of appellation of the Capitol, which post he left to be auditor of the legation at Urbino. After three years he returned to Rome, on the invitation of Cardinal Carpegna,

vicar

VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

of Innocent XI., and devoted himself to antiquarian research, examining with minute care the monuments and

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

of the Campagna. He always rode a horse which his friends nicknamed Marco Polo," after the Venetian traveller. By Innocent XII. he was made keeper of the archives of the castle St Angelo, a charge which he retained till his death. He died at Rome on the 7th of January 1700. His collection of

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

and monuments was

purchased

PURCHASED

by Cardinal Stoppani, and placed in the ducal palace at Urbino, where they may still be seen.
His

work

WORK

De Aquis et

Aquae

AQUAE (Lat. for "waters'')

-ductibus veteris Romae (168o), three dissertations on the topography of ancient Latium, is inserted in Graevius's Thesaurus, iv. (1677). His interpretation of certain passages in Livy and other classical authors involved him in a dispute with Gronovius, which bore a strong resemblance to that between Milton and

Salmasius

SALMASIUS, CLAUDIUS

, Gronovius addressing Fabretti as Faber Rusticus, and the latter, in reply, speaking of Grunnovius and his titivilitia. In this controversy Fabretti used the pseudonym Iasitheus, which he afterwards took as his

pastoral

PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

name in the

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

of the Arcadians. His other works, De Columna Trajani Syntagma (Rome, 1683), and Inscriptionum Antiquarum Explicatio (Rome, 1699), throw much light on Roman antiquity. In the former is to be found his explication of a bas-relief, with inscriptions, now in the Capitol at Rome, representing the war and taking of Troy, known as the Iliac table. Letters and other shorter works of Fabretti are to be found in publications of the time, as the Journal des Savants.
See Crescimbeni, Le Vite degli Arcadi illustri; Fabroni, Vitae Italorum, vi. 174; Niceron, iv. 372; J. Lainius, Memorabilia Italorum eruditione praestantium (Florence, 17421748).

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