Conte Carlo Leoni (1812,
Padua
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– 1872) was an Italian historian and
epigraphist. Above all, he recorded several inscription on the
city walls of Padua, which (inspired by the
Romantic
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taste for the medieval) were characterised more by
prosopography
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and grandiloquence than by historical precision.
1812 births
1872 deaths
19th-century Italian historians
Writers from Padua
Epigraphers
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