Pasquale Amati
Deceased Person
1716 – 1796
Who was Pasquale Amati?
Pasquale Amati was an Italian antiquary, born at Savignano di Romagna, and educated at Cesena, Rimini, and Rome. On his return to Savignano he wrote two Dissertazione to prove that the Rubicon was the river Savignano. He also published a Dissertazione sul castro Mutilo degli Antichi Galli e sul Passagio d'Annibale per l'Appennino, at Bologna in 1776.
Appointed to inspect the press at Pesaro, he published a collection of classics, his Biblioteca di Storia Letteraria, 6 vols, 8vo, 1768. However, his best known dissertation is that De Restitutione Purpurarum, in which he investigates the purple dye of the ancients very profoundly. In 1786, he became professor of the Pandects at Ferrara, which he retained till his death. He left two sons, both of literary reputation.
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