A'NGELO, born at Florence in 1732, studied at Rome, where he diatinguisbed himself for his ability in Latin composition, through which be became acquainted with the learned Bottari, who introduced him to the Papal Court. In 1766 Fabbroni published the first volume of his Latin biographies of the learned men of modern Italy, ' Vita Italorum Doctrine Illustrium ; ' a work which he after wards extended to twenty volumes 8vo, and for which he has been styled by some the Plutarch of modern Italy. His patron Bottari not being on friendly terms with the Teauits, who had great influence at Rome under Popo Clement XIII., and who accused Bottari of a bias in favour of the Tansenists, Fabbroni found that he had little chance of making his way at the Papal Court, and he returned to Florence in 1767, where the Grand-Duke Leopold appointed him President of the Collegiate Church of San Lorenzo, and afterwards made him Prefect of the University of Pisa, and Prior of the military order of San Stefauo. After this Fabbroni travelled through Germany, France, and England, and made the acquaintance of many learned men in those countries. On his return to Tuscany in 1773, he devoted himself entirely to literary pursuits. He continued his series of Latin biogra
phies already mentioned ; wrote also some Italian biographiee ; edited the ' Giornale Pisano,' a literary magazine, which enjoyed considerable reputation in the latter part of the I8th century ; and published an interesting history of the University of Pima, Historia Academics Flamm,' 3 vols. 4to, Pisa, 1791. Fabbroni died at Pisa in 1803. A cenotaph was raised to his memory in the Campo Santo of that city. Fabbroni was considered one of the best Latin scholars and writers of Italy in the 18th century. His Italian works are—'Elogj di alcuni Illustri Italiani,' 2 vole. 8vo, Pisa, 1789; Elogj di Dante, di Poliziano, di Ariosto, e di Tasso; 8vo, Parma, 1800; Dissertazione sulle Statue appartenenti alla Favola di Niobe,' Florence, 1799. He also contri buted to the colleotion of Memorie de' pia lllustri Pisani,' 4 vols. 4to, Piss, 1790.
(Lombardi, Storia della Lelteratura Italian nel Secolo XVIIL ; Gamba, Serie di Testi di Lingua ; Life of Fabbroni, written by him self, and inserted in the last volume of his Vitas Italorum.')