L'affare Stanzani. Documenti inediti degli archivi romani

Abstract

The archive records of the Pontificia Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon {Rome) offer documents that enlighten the story of the Stanzani Collection. This paper aims at presenting these unpublished records, at contributing to the history of Islamic coin collections in Europe, in 19th century, and at shedding light on the biography of Ludovico Stanzani. On the one hand Stanzani case finds its place among the studies of individual biographies linked to that of the history of museums through their donations and, on the other hand, his collection testify an interest and a taste that should be considered among the traditional studies devoted to the history of collecting.