Baldassarre Boncompagni
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Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 10 May 1821 – Rome, 13 April 1894), prince of Piombino, was an Italian historian of mathematics. He edited Bollettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche ("The bulletin of bibliography and history of mathematical and physical sciences") (1868-1887), the first Italian periodical entire dedicated to the history of mathematics. Furthermore, he took care of the first modern edition of Fibonacci's Liber Abaci.
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- Massimo Mazzotti (2000): For science and fot the Pope-king: writing the history of the exact sciences in nineteenth-century Rome, BJHS, 33, pp. 257-282
- A. Favaro (1895): Necrologio, Atti Ist. Veneto, 6 pp. 509-521
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