1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Inghirami

INGHIRAMI, the name of an Italian noble family of Volterra. The following are its most important members:

Tommaso Inghirami (1470–1516), a humanist, is best known for his Latin orations, seven of which were published in 1777. His success in the part of Phaedra in a presentation of Seneca’s Hippolytus (or Phaedra) led to his being generally known as Fedra. He received high honours from Alexander VI., Leo X. and Maximilian I.

Francesco Inghirami (1772–1846), a distinguished archaeologist, fought in the French wars (1799), and afterwards devoted himself especially to the study of Etruscan antiquities. He founded a college at Fiesole and collected, though without critical insight, a mass of valuable material in his Monumenti etruschi (10 vols., 1820–1827), Galleria omerica (3 vols., 1829–1851), Pitture di vasi fittili (1831–1837), Museo etrusco chiusino (2 vols., 1833), and the incomplete Storia della Toscana (1841–1845): these works were elaborately illustrated.

His brother, Giovanni Inghirami (1779–1851), was an astronomer of repute. He was professor of astronomy at the Institute founded by Ximenes in Florence and published beside a number of text-books Effemeridi dell’ occultazione delle piccole stelle sotto la luna (1809–1830); Effemeridi di Venese e Giove all’ uso de’ naviganti (1821–1824); Tavole astronomichi universali portatili (1811); Base trigonometrica misurata in Toscana (1818); Carta topografica e geometrica della Toscana (1830).