“L’unghia del leone e la scintilla del genio”: Vincenzo Tonni Bazza and the rediscovery of Niccolò Tartaglia
A cache of documents from the private archive of the Brescia engineer and scholar Vincenzo Tonni Bazza (1878‑1920) has recently surfaced on the antiquarian market and promptly been purchased by the “Raccolte Storiche” Research Centre at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Brescia campus. The a...
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Museo Galileo
2024-04-01
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| Series: | Galilæana |
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| Online Access: | https://gal-studies.museogalileo.it/index.php/galilaeana/article/view/23 |
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| Summary: | A cache of documents from the private archive of the Brescia engineer and scholar Vincenzo Tonni Bazza (1878‑1920) has recently surfaced on the antiquarian market and promptly been purchased by the “Raccolte Storiche” Research Centre at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Brescia campus. The acquisition has enabled researchers to shed further light on Tonni Bazza and explore his contribution to the rediscovery, both nationally and internationally, of Niccolò Tartaglia (1499‑1557) in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Tonni Bazza was a little-known entrepreneur who served as an intermediary in Rome between the leading Italian industrial companies and the government; he also took an interest in financial and cultural institutions and organizations and was a keen observer of Italian politics. As a historian, he focused on his hometown, Brescia, and the figures who made it great in the fields of science and mathematics.
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| ISSN: | 1825-3903 |