Francesco Borgani

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Francesco Borgani (early 17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque, mainly active in Mantua.

He was a pupil of Domenico Fetti. He was employed by the court of the Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga. He painted a St. Francis intercedes with the Virgin to liberate Mantua from the plague of 1630 for the church of Santa Agnese, but now in the Ducal Palace of Mantua. He painted for the churches of San Pietro, San Simone, and Santa Croce at Mantua.

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• Coddè, Segretario dell Belle Arti in Mantova, Dottore Pasquale (1837). in Aumentate e scritte Dottore Fisico, Luigi Coddè: Memorie Biografiche, poste in forma di Dizionario die Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Incisori Mantovani. Presso i Fratelli Negretti, Mantua; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on October 16, 2006, pages 26-29. 
• Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 159.