Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli
{{Short description|Italian civil servant and essayist}}
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| birth_date = 1729
| birth_place = Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
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| death_place = Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
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| alma_mater = University of Pisa
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| period = 18th century
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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.{{sfn|Zapperi|1966}} He died in Florence.
Works
File:Giuseppe pelli bencivelli, profilo biografico di j.j. winckelmann, sett. 1770 (fi, ads).jpg
- [http://pelli.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/it/progetto.html Efemeridi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813172230/http://pelli.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/it/progetto.html |date=2020-08-13 }}, Florence, 1759-1808 - preserved in the Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze.
- Memorie per servire alla vita di Dante Alighieri ed alla storia della sua famiglia, Venice, Zatta, 1759.
- Nuovi dialoghi dei morti, Florence, 1770.
- [http://www.memofonte.it/home/files/pdf/SAGGIO_ISTORICO_1779.pdf Saggio Istorico della Real Galleria di Firenze], Florence, 1779.
- [http://www.memofonte.it/home/files/pdf/1775-1792.pdf Catalogo delle pitture della Regia Galleria], Florence, 1779.
- Sbozzo di una dissertazione sopra la pena di morte, Florence, 1760-1761 - preserved in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze (Archivio Pelli Bencivenni, cartella 13 inserto 170)
References
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Bibliography
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- {{in lang|fr}} Philippe Audegean, Le plus ancien programme de l'abolitionnisme italien: le Discorso della pena di morte de Giuseppe Pelli (1760-1761), in La peine de mort, edited by Luigi Delia and Fabrice Hoarau, CORPUS, revue de philosophie, 62 (2012), pp. 135–156.
- {{in lang|it}} Silvia Capecchi, Scrittura e coscienza autobiografica nel diario di Giuseppe Pelli, Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2006.
- {{in lang|it}} Miriam Fileti Mazza, Bruna M. Tomasello, Galleria degli Uffizi 1775-1792. Un laboratorio culturale per Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni, Modena: Franco Cosimo Editore, 2003.
- {{in lang|it}} Miriam Fileti Mazza, Bruna M. Tomasello, Catalogo delle pitture della Regia Galleria compilato da Giuseppe Bencivenni già Pelli. Gli Uffizi alla fine del Settecento, 2004.
- {{DBI|first=Roberto|last=Zapperi|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-bencivenni-pelli_(Dizionario-Biografico)|title=Bencivenni Pelli, Giuseppe|volume=8|pages=219–222}}
External links
- {{in lang|it}} [http://pelli.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/it/progetto.html Le Efemeridi di Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813172230/http://pelli.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/it/progetto.html |date=2020-08-13 }}, edited by the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
- {{in lang|it}} [http://www.memofonte.it/autori/giuseppe-pelli-bencivenni-1729-1809.html Opere di bencivenni Pelli] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150802025720/http://www.memofonte.it/autori/giuseppe-pelli-bencivenni-1729-1809.html |date=2015-08-02 }} - on the site of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20081202140835/http://www.memofonte.it/home/ Fondazione Memofonte]
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Category:18th-century essayists
Category:Italian male essayists
Category:18th-century Italian writers
Category:18th-century Italian male writers
Category:Italian art historians
Category:Directors of the Uffizi
Category:Italian male non-fiction writers