Antonio Francesco Gori | |
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![]() Antonio Francesco Gori by Johann Jacob Haid | |
Born | 9 November 1691 ![]() Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
Died | 20 January 1757 ![]() Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
Resting place | Basilica of St. Mark ![]() |
Occupation | Priest, etruscologist, university teacher, archaeologist ![]() |
Employer | |
Position held | provost (1746–1757) ![]() |
Antonio Francesco Gori, on his titlepages Franciscus Gorius (9 December 1691 – 20 January 1757), was an Italian antiquarian, a priest in minor orders, provost of the Baptistery of San Giovanni from 1746,[1] and a professor at the Liceo, whose numerous publications of ancient Roman sculpture and antiquities formed part of the repertory on which 18th-century scholarship as well as the artistic movement of neoclassicism were based. In 1735 he was a founding member of a circle of antiquaries and connoisseurs in Florence called the Società Colombaria,[2] the predecessor of the Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere la Colombaria,[3] to foster "not only Tuscan Poetry and Eloquence, or one faculty only; but almost all the most distinguished and useful parts of human knowledge: in a word, it is what the Greeks called Encyclopedia".[4]