Luciano Bonaparte

Statut : 1st Prince of Canino

1775-1840

Notes : Brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. He studied in France and was a committed Jacobin and a partisan of Robespierre, and was involved in the activities of the Revolution. Later he became estranged from his brother the Emperor and went into self-imposed exile in Rome, where he was created Prince of Canino by the Pope. He was a prolific art collector and scholar of literature and archaeology. In 1828 he organized the excavation of Etruscan tombs on his lands of Canino, bringing to light a wealth of Greek vases.

Traductions :

• Auteur de Catalogue and Account of certain Vases and other Etruscan Antiquities discovered in 1828 and 1829, by the Prince of Canino (1831)