Antonio Panizzi

Antonio Panizzi (1797-1879) was principal librarian of the British Museum from 1850 to 1866, born at Modena in Italy. He took refuge in England in 1821 as implicated in a Piedmontese revolutionary movement that year. He procured the favour of Lord Brougham and a post in the Museum, in which he rose to be one of the chiefs.

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