Alessandro Rondoni e il mercato antiquario romano tra fine Cinquecento e primo Seicento

Alessandro Rondoni (Como ca 1560-Rome 1634), active in Rome as from 1594, worked as restorer and antique dealer for the Mattei, Peretti Montalto, Gonzaga, Guicciardini, Medici, Borghese and Ludovisi families. We can identify a group of ancient inscriptions that were kept in Rondoni’s workshop between 1594 and 1625 ca. thanks to Giovanni Battista Donis’ manuscript, now in the Biblioteca Marucelliana of Florence, and other manuscripts and printed books. Study of these pieces has yielded evidence to trace their origin and subsequent sale, and to identify another purchaser of Rondoni’s work in the Aldobrandini family. Rondoni is also believed to have made at least two modern copies of ancient inscriptions.