Francesco Ratti

Francesco Ratti (19 September 1819, Milan – 17 December 1895, Bologna)[1] was an Italian engraver.

In the studio of Sacchi he completed illustrations for a publication of I Promessi Sposi of Alessandro Manzoni.

Mamiani, minister of public education, named Ratti to the position of directing a newly founded school of wood-engraving at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna.

[2] He was prolific as an engraver for journals and books, for example, depicting illustrations of the tragedies of Schiller, translated by Andrea Maffei and published by Pirola.

He also engraved chemistry texts including All'assiduità degli studi chimici.