FABRETTI, RAPHAEL (1618-1700), Italian antiquary, was born in 1618 at Urbino in Umbria. He studied law at Cagli and Urbino, where he took the degree of doctor at the age of 18. He was treasurer and auditor of the papal legation in Spain, where he remained 13 years. By Innocent XII. he was made keeper of the archives of the castle St. Angelo, a charge which he retained till his death. He died at Rome on Jan. 7, 1700.
He wrote: De Aquis et Aquae-ductibus veteris Romae (1680), three dissertations on the topography of ancient Latium, printed also in Graevius's Thesaurus, iv. (1677) ; De Columna Trajani Syntagma (1683), and Inscriptionum Antiquarum Explicatio See J. Lamius, Memorabilia Italorum eruditione praestantium (Florence, 1742-48) .