Carli, GIOVANNI RINALDO, born in 1720 at Capo d'Istria, was professor of Astronomy at Venice, and in 1754-60 published his great numismatic work, Della Moneta. For his merits as a financier, Carli was made by the Emperor Joseph President of the Council of Commerce at Milan. His works embrace Istrian and other antiquities, dissertations on classical subjects, against sorcery, and against Rousseau's theory of natural religion. He died 22d February 1795.
Carli, GIOVANNI RINALDO
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 769
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