# Carlo Archinto

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Count **Carlo Archinto** (30 July 1669 – 17 December 1732) was an Italian aristocrat and patron of the arts.

## Biography

Carlo Archinto was born into the aristocratic [Archinto family](/source/Archinto_family) and was educated initially under the [Jesuits](/source/Jesuits) at the [Brera Academy](/source/Brera_Academy) of Milan. He then studied with the Jesuits at the [University of Ingolstadt](/source/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](/source/Filippo_Argelati) to publish the epic history by [Muratori](/source/Ludovico_Antonio_Muratori), titled *[Rerum italicarum scriptores](/source/Rerum_italicarum_scriptores)*. He was rewarded with appointments by the Hapsburg rulers.[1] The Emperor [Leopold](/source/Leopold_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor) made Archinto his [chamberlain](/source/Chamberlain_(office)), and [Charles II of Spain](/source/Charles_II_of_Spain) created him a knight of the Golden Fleece, and [Philip V](/source/Philip_V_of_Spain) a [grandee](/source/Grandee) of Spain. Archinto commissioned frescoes by the Venetian [Tiepolo](/source/Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo) to decorate his family's [Palazzo Archinto](/source/Palazzo_Archinto_(Milan)).[2] He died on the 17 December, 1732.

## Works

Carlo Archinto wrote several works both in Latin and Italian; one, the annotations on the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Books of the Histories of [Arnulf of Milan](/source/Arnulf_of_Milan), is published in fourth volume of the *Rerum italicarum scriptores*, and some tables of the sciences were published anonymously at Venice after the anthor's death, under the title *Tabulæ precipua Scientiarum et Artium Capita digesta per Ordinem repræsentantes*.

## References

1. [Biographical Dictionary](https://books.google.com/books?id=9w1FAAAAYAAJ), Volume 3, by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, (Great Britain), 1843; Page 294.

1. [Giambattista Tiepolo: Fifteen Oil Sketches](https://books.google.com/books?id=_h82AgAAQBAJ), by Jon L. Seydl, page 36. Frescoes destroyed by bombing in World War II.

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