Antonio Niccolini (abbot)

Antonio Niccolini (1701-1769)

Antonio di Filippo di Lorenzo Niccolini (Florence, 1701–1769) was an Italian abbot, jurist and scholar, who was considered one of the leading figures of eighteenth-century Tuscany.

He was born into a noble Florentine family, the youngest child of Filippo, third Marquess of Ponsacco and Camugliano, and was a relative of the Pope. He studied at the University of Pisa and became a member of several Tuscan academies and President of the Botanical Society of Florence.

He was a member of a commission to regulate the carrying of arms which brought him into conflict with the Inquisition who claimed they had the responsibility. After further conflict with representatives of Habsburg-Lorraine, he was exiled from Tuscany in 1748, after which he travelled extensively.

In 1747, then in London, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as "a person of great Merit, universal Learning, and particularly well versed in Philosophical knowledge".

References

• Barton, Miles (2013), Period Paintings: Thomas Gibson (1680-1751): Antonio Niccolini (1701-1769), Miles Barton, archived from the original on 2013-11-06, retrieved November 6, 2013 — Includes a portrait of Niccolini as a boy and cites:
• Barton, Miles (2011), "A Man of Sense: Thomas Gibson's Portrait of Antonio Niccolini (1701-1769)", The Georgian Group Journal, XXI: 199–202
• NDP staff (14 May 2007), Niccolini Family, Niccolini Dome Palace, retrieved November 6, 2013
• Romanelli, Rita (Niccolini da Camugliano family archivist) (2013), The Niccolini's history: Between the 18th and the 19th century, retrieved November 6, 2013

External links

• Brief history of the Niccolini family