1637

Lorenzo Magalotti

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First name
Lorenzo
Last name
Magalotti
Date of Birth
1637
Date of Death
1712
Born in
Rome
Died in
Florence

Count Lorenzo Magalotti read law, medicine and mathematics in Pisa. He was secretary (1660) of the Tuscan Accademia del Cimentom and travelled to the Netherlands (1667, 1669), England, Spain and Portugal. He was adviser (1670) of State to the new Grand Duke of Tuscany, who appointed him as a Tuscan ambassador (1673–4) to the Imperial Court of the Holy Roman Empire in Vienna. Magalotti was removed from politics in 1678 and devoted his further life to write Lettere familiari, which were issued posthumously in 1719. See: DBI; Knowles Middleton, 1980.