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Antonio di Filippo di Lorenzo Niccolini (Florence, 1701–1769) was an Italian abbot, jurist and scholar, who was considered one of the leading figures of eighteenth-century Tuscany.

He was born into a noble Florentine family, the youngest child of Filippo, third Marquess of Ponsacco and Camugliano, and was a relative of the Pope. He studied at the University of Pisa and became a member of several Tuscan academies and President of the Botanical Society of Florence.

He was a member of a commission to regulate the carrying of arms which brought him into conflict with the Inquisition who claimed they had the responsibility. After further conflict with representatives of Habsburg-Lorraine, he was exiled from Tuscany in 1748, after which he travelled extensively.

In 1747, then in London, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as "a person of great Merit, universal Learning, and particularly well versed in Philosophical knowledge".

Notes

1. NDP staff 2007.
2. Romanelli 2013.
3. Barton 2013.
4. "Fellows Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

References

• Barton, Miles (2013), Period Paintings: Thomas Gibson (1680-1751): Antonio Niccolini (1701-1769), Miles Barton, archived from the original on 2013-11-06, retrieved November 6, 2013 — Includes a portrait of Niccolini as a boy and cites:
• Barton, Miles (2011), "A Man of Sense: Thomas Gibson's Portrait of Antonio Niccolini (1701-1769)", The Georgian Group Journal, XXI: 199–202
• NDP staff (14 May 2007), Niccolini Family, Niccolini Dome Palace, retrieved November 6, 2013
• Romanelli, Rita (Niccolini da Camugliano family archivist) (2013), The Niccolini's history: Between the 18th and the 19th century, retrieved November 6, 2013

External links

• Brief history of the Niccolini family

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