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Nicolò Papadopoli Aldobrandini
1841–1922
A Venetian nobleman with wide-ranging interests, he moved easily between finance, public life, and the study of coins. He is especially remembered for serious work on Venetian numismatics and for a long career in Italian civic and political affairs.
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Le monete di Venezia descritte ed illustrate da Nicolò Papadopoli Aldobrandini, v. 1 Con disegni di C. Kunz
by Nicolò Papadopoli Aldobrandini
About the author
Born in Venice in 1841, Nicolò Papadopoli Aldobrandini was an Italian banker, politician, and numismatist. Sources consistently describe him as a member of a prominent Venetian family, and note that he later used the name Papadopoli-Aldobrandini. He died in Rome in 1922.
Alongside managing family wealth and agricultural estates, he was active in public life in the Kingdom of Italy. Biographical sources from the Italian Senate and the Istituto Veneto present him as a longtime civic figure with interests that ranged from economics and land management to scholarship.
For readers, he is most notable as a learned student of coinage, especially the coins of Venice. His name remains closely linked to numismatic research, and he is remembered as one of the figures who helped give the field greater seriousness and visibility in Italy.