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Visconti (ENNIO QUIRINO an Italian arch)

ENNIO QUIRINO, an Italian archæologist; born in Rome, Italy, Nov. 1, 1751. In his 14th year he translated into Italian verse the "Hecuba" of Euripides. His greatest work vols. 1808). is "Grecian Iconography" (3 vols.

He visited London at the invitation of Lord Elgin to inspect the Elgin Marbles, 1817, and wrote "Memoirs on the Works of Sculpture from the Parthenon" (1818). He died Feb. 7, 1818.