Bartolomeo Borghesi (1781–1860) spent the last four decades of his life in voluntary exile in San Marino, having relocated from his native Savignano to escape Napoleonic disruption. He became the foremost Latin epigrapher of the 19th century, and his correspondence with Theodor Mommsen shaped the foundations of modern Roman numismatic scholarship. San Marino sheltered him; he repaid it with an international reputation it could not otherwise have claimed.
His ten-volume Oeuvres complètes was published posthumously by the French government.
Bartolomeo Borghesi (1781–1860) spent the last four decades of his life in voluntary exile in San Marino, having relocated from his native Savignano to escape Napoleonic disruption. He became the foremost Latin epigrapher of the 19th century, and his correspondence with Theodor Mommsen shaped the foundations of modern Roman numismatic scholarship. San Marino sheltered him; he repaid it with an international reputation it could not otherwise have claimed.
His ten-volume Oeuvres complètes was published posthumously by the French government.