Fulvio Orsini (1529 - 1606)

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Fulvio Orsini (1529-1600) was an Italian humanist, historian, and archaeologist. He was a descendant of the Orsini family, one of the oldest, most illustrious, and for centuries most powerful of the Roman princely families, whose origins, when stripped of legend, can be traced back to a certain Ursus de Paro, recorded at Rome in 998. He published a new edition of Arnobius and of the Septuagint, and wrote works dealing with the history of Rome.