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Via Santa Maria Corteorlandini
(Piazza Giovan Domenico Mansi)

Giovanni Domenico Mansi

Lucca 1692 - Lucca 1769
Italian prelate, theologian, scholar and historian, known for his massive works on the Church councils
(Wikipedia)

Giuseppe Baccelli
1909

Description

Bronze bust.

Inscription(s)

Top of the base:

ΜΡ ΘΥ

lvcae
e patricia mansiorvm gente
ortvs est
xiv mart. an. m.dc.xci

in neapolitana dono
inter sodales a matre magna
cooptatvs est
anno christiano m.dcc.viii

lvcensivm pontifex
vrbem ingressvs est an. m.dcc.lxiv
qvem an. m.dcc.lxix.v. rad. oct.
abreptvm sibi cives collac...arvnt

ΜΡ ΘΥ = Μήτηρ Θεοῦ, Greek for 'Mother of God'.
Bronze tablet at the lower part of the base

Ioanni Dominico Mansio

patricia nobilitate civi
qvi
inter sodales a matre magna
virtvtis lavde insignis
doctrinis omnibvs ervditissimvs
reiqve historicae
magnvs investigator
disppvtator svbtilis
pontificali lvcensivm dignitate
honestatvs est
cives anno post obitvm cxx
decori vrbis italiaeqve maximo
dedicavere

Signature

F^lli Pasquali Pistoia fusero

Sculptor

Giuseppe Baccelli (Lucca 1883 - Viareggio 1932), Italian sculptor (Artisti Lucchesi).

Locatie (N 43°50'41" - E 10°30'5") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: itto166; Photograph: 16 May 2017
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