Libri-Carrucci

Libri-Carrucci, GUILLAUME BRUTUS ICLIIUS TIMOLEON, COUNT, mathematician and bibliographer, was born at Florence, 2d January 1803. When only twenty years of age he was appointed professor of Mathematics in the university of Pisa. But in 1830, being compromised in the Liberal political movement, he fled to France as a refugee, and there found a patron in Arago (whom he afterwards attacked in a most spiteful manner). He was naturalised, and in 1833 elected member of the Academy of Sciences, professor at the Sorbonne, Chief Inspector of Public Instruction, and Superintendent of the State Libraries. He was, moreover, decorated with the Legion of Honour, and appointed editor of the Journal des Savants, &c. An enthusiastic bibliomaniac, he found means to collect a magnificent library for himself; but, being accused of abstracting books and valuable MSS. from the public libraries, he fled to England. In his absence he was tried, and condemned, in June 1850, to ten years' imprisonment. Libri-Carrucci was the author of a learned Histoire des Sciences Mathématiques en Italie (4 vols. 1838-41), of Mémoires de Mathématiques et de Physique (1829), and other works. He died on 28th September 1869 at Fiesole in Italy.