Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli Explained

Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli
Birth Date:1729
Birth Place:Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Death Place:Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Alma Mater:University of Pisa
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Language:Italian
Period:18th century
Notableworks:Nuovi dialoghi dei morti
Efemeridi

Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli or Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni (1729 - 31 July 1808) was an Italian civil servant and essayist. Born and dying in Florence, he served as director of the Uffizi Gallery from 1775 to 1793. He was the last member of a Florentine patrician family.

Life

Orphaned early in life, he studied law at the University of Pisa but did not gain his doctorate. In 1758 he joined the Secretariat of State of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. A supporter of the Tuscan Enlightenment, he wrote several books, essays and dissertations on art and culture. In the 1770s, he replaced the scholar Giovanni Lami as the editor of the erudite "Novelle letterarie" journal of Florence. He also wrote the 80-volume Efemeridi, a collection of diaries offering an incredible fresco of Florentine society between 1750 and 1799. He died in Florence.

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