Pietro Luigi Galletti
Pietro Luigi Galletti was an Italian Benedictine, historian and archaeologist; b. Rome in 1724; d. there, 13 December 1790. Biography He was educated in Rome where he entered the Order of St. Benedict. While a monk in the Abbey of St. Paul Without the Walls, he made a collection of the numerous ancient inscriptions used in the pavement of the floor of the famous basilica or scattered among the cloister buildings and in the surrounding vineyards. These became soon the nucleus of a classified museum of Christian and Pagan inscriptions. Later on he became keeper of the archives and librarian of the Benedictines in Florence. Pius VI bestowed various benefices on him and made him titular Bishop of Cyrene. His collection of inscriptions and his works on the higher papal officials of the old Lateran Palace remained authoritative for some time. His writings were directed to widely divergent periods and spheres of historical and archaeological research. On Roman antiquity he wrote: Capena, municipio dei Romani (Rome, 1756), and Gabbio, antica città di Sabina, scoperta ove era Torri (Rome, 1757). His two works Del Vestarario della santa Romana chiesa (Rome, 1758), and Del Primicerio della S. Sede Apostolica e di altri