Carlo Archinto

Carlo Archinto was born into the aristocratic Archinto family and was educated initially under the Jesuits at the Brera Academy of Milan. He then studied with the Jesuits at the University of Ingolstadt. He travelled as a young man through France, Germany, Holland, and his native Italy and returned in Milan in 1700. He formed a very choice library in his palace, which he enriched with a rare collection of mathematical instruments. In 1702, he founded a scholarly academy, which met at his palace. He collaborated with Filippo Argelati to publish the epic history by Muratori, titled Rerum italicarum scriptores. He was rewarded with appointments by the Hapsburg rulers.^[1] The Emperor Leopold made Archinto his chamberlain, and Charles II of Spain created him a knight of the Golden Fleece, and Philip V a grandee of Spain. Archinto commissioned frescoes by the Venetian Tiepolo to decorate his family's Palazzo Archinto.^[2] He died on the 17 December, 1732.