13 Facts About Felice Caronni

Felice Caronni was an Italian memoir writer, numismatist and archeologist.

Felice Caronni fell victim to the Barbary slave trade after having been abducted by the barbary corsairs in 1804.

Felice Caronni taught the Humanities at the college of San Giovanni alla Vigne of Lodi until 1771, when he was transferred to Arpino to teach Rhetoric at the local college.

Felice Caronni became friends with Visconti's sons, Ennio Quirino, Filippo Aurelio and Alessandro.

Felice Caronni gave an account of his travel in a letter to Visconti, in which he describes the ancient works of art he had seen in the Grand Ducal Gallery in Florence.

In 1780 Caronni was transferred again to Rome where he resumed contact with Visconti and furthered his archaeological studies, but due to health problems he was transferred to Bormio in 1782.

In 1793, at the end of this assignment in Hungary, Felice Caronni went back to Monza, where he continued to search for ancient coins.

Felice Caronni was freed at the beginning of 1805 thanks to the efforts of his superiors, the French government and the vice-president of the Italian Republic, Francesco Melzi d'Eril.

Felice Caronni took the opportunity to visit the remnants of ancient Carthage.

Felice Caronni returned to Italy through Livorno, where he had to remain in quarantine until February 1805.

Felice Caronni occupied this period by starting to write a memoir of his experience, published in Milan in 1805.

Felice Caronni gave an account of these visits in another volume printed in Milan in 1812, dedicated to Count Michele Esterhazy.

Felice Caronni returned in Milan after the end of the French occupation, shortly before his death, in mid-April 1815.