Giovan Pietro Vieusseux

Giovan Pietro Vieusseux (28 September 1779, Oneglia – 28 April 1863, Florence) was an Italian writer and editor, of French-Swiss ancestry.

[1] In 1819, he moved to Florence and announced the opening of a literary and scientific meeting room (now known as the Gabinetto Vieusseux), at the Palazzo Buondelmonti [it].

[2] He also maintained a voluminous correspondence with the intellectuals of that time and, together with Gino Capponi, founded Antologia [it], a literary and political magazine.

When the editor refused to comply with the government's requests, the magazine was closed by Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany, under pressure from Austria.

The initial series of articles he published was about the work of Ludovico Antonio Muratori, the first scholar to make extensive use of Italian historical sources.