Matteo Egizio

Matteo Egizio (23 January 1674[1]– 29 November 1745[1]) was an Italian historian, librarian, numismatist and scholar.

He was born in Naples to a family that had originated in Gravina di Puglia.

His father worked for the noblewoman Maria Milano, who encouraged Egizio towards studying classics.

From a young age he divided his time between private tuition and attending Giuseppe Valletta's library, editing its catalogue.

He corresponded with Anton Francesco Gori, Scipione Maffei, Apostolo Zeno, Bernard de Montfaucon and other intellectuals of the era[2] as well as joining Naples' Accademia degli Uniti and (with the pseudonym Timaste Pisandeo) Rome's Accademia dell'Arcadia and writing for the 'Giornale dei letterati'.