Antonio Magliabecchi, an Italian scholar, born in Florence in 1033, died there in 1714. He was apprenticed to a goldsmith in his native city, but ultimately abandoned his trade and devoted himself to literature. He attracted the notice of Michele Ermini, librarian to the cardinal de' Medici, under whose instruction he acquired a thorough knowledge of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Cosmo III. appointed him his librarian, in which congenial situation he grew so absorbed in his books as to disregard the ordinary comforts and pleasures of life. He usually passed the whole night in study, and when exhausted nature demanded rest, a wretched straw chair served him for a couch, and an old threadbare cloak for a coverlet. His memory was prodigious. By the time of his death he had accumulated a library of 30,000 volumes, which, with funds for its preservation and enlargement, he bequeathed to the city of Florence. It is known by the name of the Magliabec-chiana, and is open to the public. We owe to Magliabecchi the preservation of many works that had long lain in manuscript in the Laurentian library of the Medici. He produced no literary work of his own.