Giuseppe Bartoli (27 February 1717 – 1788) was an Italian antiquarian, and literary scholar, working mainly in Turin.

Biography

Giuseppe Bartoli was born in

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, and there he studied at the seminary, where among his teachers was the Cardinal

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. He then gained an apprenticeship under the professors of Greek at the University of Padua, Domenico Lazzarini and Jacopo Giacometti. He also studied law under professor Giuseppe Alaleona, obtaining a doctorate in 1736. His aversion to being a jurist led him to run a school in Padua for a few years. In 1745, he was named professor of ''belle-lettere'' and eloquence at the

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. He was named the royal antiquarian, and this allowed him to travel extensively. He published extensively on classical literature.Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 1, compiled by Gioacchino Maria Olivier-Poli, Naples (1824); page 184-185.

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