[2] Robert Valentine seems to have spent little if any of his adult life in England before moving to Italy, where he became known by the Italian versions of his name.
He settled in Rome and took a Roman wife, marrying Giulia Bellatti in September 1701 in the parish of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte.
He died in the same Roman parish on 26 May 1747, only 12 days after the death of his wife, and not back in England at some other date, as was formerly thought.
[1] Valentine is particularly known for his large output of compositions for the recorder,[1] as well as for his reputation as a highly skilled player of that instrument.
[3] Valentine's prominence was recorded by John Hawkins in 1776 in his General History of the Science and Practice of Music: And to come nearer to our own times, it may be remembered by many now living, that a flute was the pocket companion of many who wished to be thought fine gentlemen.