(Monza 1747 - Milano 1815) churchman. In 1790 he was in Hungary to organise the numismatic collections of Count Mihaly Viczay at Hedervar. The following year he travelled for nine months all around Europe, collecting coins, gems and manuscripts. In 1979 he was back in Italy. In 1804, while travelling from Palermo to Naples, he was captured by pirates and taken to Tunisia. He was liberated after three months, but when he reached Leghorn he was quaranteened till 1805. In 1805 he published his memoir of the imprisonment in Tunisia, Ragguaglio del viaggio compendioso d'un dilettante antiquario sorpreso da' corsari e condotto in Barberia e felicemente ripatriato (1805). The following year he published a second memoir, Ragguaglio di alcuni monumenti di antichità ed arti raccolti da un dilettante antiquario (1806), where he described the ruins of Carthage among other things. In 1806 he was in Vienna and then again in Hedervar. In 1808 he visited the mines in Transilvania, and four years later he published a memoir on this journey, Caronni in Dacia. Mie osservazioni... sui Valacchi specialmente e zingari transilvani (1812). He went back to Milan, but had to flee to Austria because of his anti-French feelings. When Milan passed again under Austrian domination, he went back and died there in 1815.
DBI
Clerici 2008, p. 1257
Ragguaglio del viaggio compendioso
Ragguaglio di alcuni monumenti
Caronni in Dacia
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