Francesco Maria Pratilli
Francesco Maria Pratilli (1689–1763) was an Italian priest, scholar, antiquarian, whose name is known, from the 19th century, for being involved in a vast series of skilled forgeries.
Life and works
[edit]Born in Santa Maria in Сapuа, where he was canon, he lived mostly in Naples where he died. King Charles III of Bourbon made him a member of the Accademia Ercolanese.
Works
[edit]His writings span both ecclesiastical, theological, numismatic topics, often disseminated by his historical forgeries.[1][2]
Among his works are:
- Della Via Appia, libro IV, Naples, 1745.
- Lettera sopra una moneta singolare del tiranno Giovanni, Naples 1748.
- Dissertazione su i consolari della Campania, Naples, 1757.
- Della Metropolis ecclesiastica della chiesa di Capua, Naples 1758.
- Relazione della concessione de' pontificati fatta da Benedetto XIII al capitolo di Capua, Naples, 1725.
- Lettera sopra un antico marino in cui si fa parola di Giove Ortense, volumen 28 della raccolta del Calogera.
- Lettera sur l'antico equatutico.
- Lettera sur una moneta di Guglielmo II il Buono.
- Lettera sur la colonia in Bauli.
- Vita di Camillo Pellegrino-De monasterio Theanensi (volumen 1 della Historia principum Longobardorum).
- De familia et patria Divi Thomae de Aquino.
- De Ludovico Imperator Augusti captivate-De Liburia.
- Chronicon Cavense, an alleged 12th century chronicle, which in 1847, due to the conclusive work of Pertz and Köpke,[3] it revealed to be "one of the most audacious forgeries of the eighteenth century".[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Herbert Bloch, Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages, Vol. 1, Harvard University Press, 1986 ISBN 978-0-674-58655-0 (p. 222-224)
- ^ Nicola Cilento, Il falsario della storia dei Longobardi meridionali: Francesco Maria Pratilli (1689-1763) in Italia meridionale longobarda, Riccardo Ricciardi editore, Milano-Napoli, 1971, 2a ed., pp. 35-51
- ^ Georg Heinrich Pertz e Rudolf Köpke, Über das Chronicon Cavense und andere von Pratillo herausgegebene Quellenschriften, in "Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde", IX (1847), Hannover, pp. 1-239
- ^ Herbert Bloch, Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages, Vol. 1, Harvard University Press, 1986 ISBN 978-0-674-58655-0 (p. 222)
References
[edit]- Minieri-Riccio, Camillo (1844). Memorie storiche degli scrittori nati nel regno di Napoli. pp. 284–285.
- Mansi, Maria Gabriella (2016). "PRATILLI, Francesco Maria". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 85: Ponzone–Quercia (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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