Morcelli, Stefano Antonio, Italian Jesuit scholar and epigraphist (1737-1822). Autograph album leaf signed.

€ 500.00

Epigraph in Latin language: "Pro Acerbo Fvnere Favstini Al F Tadini Com Ad Omnem Ingenii Et Virtvtis Lavdem Adolescentis Qvem Parentes Vnigenam Improvida Rvina Exstinctvm Lvxere Insolabiliter Et Lvgent A Die VII Idvs Decembr An M DCC LXXXXVIIII Hev Raptvm Sibi Qvvm Annvm Ageret Florentis Aevi XXV. Receptae Instar Vitae Habete Loverenses Signum Hoc Pulcrvm Amabile Magni Eq Canovae Manv [...]".

Morcelli declined the election as archbishop after the death of the Franciscan Luigi Spagnoletti in 1799.

The Epigraph is noted in "Lexicon Epigraphum Morcellianus Vol. II." (Bononiae, ex officina Annesii Nobilii et Soc. A - MDCCCXXXVIII).

Calligraphic handwriting capitalized.