Oliviero Forzetta

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title: Oliviero Forzetta
text: Oliviero Forzetta was a notary and physician of Treviso from a family of self-confessed usurers. He engaged in money-lending, married into the local aristocracy, and was an avid collector of Roman antiquities of all kinds and drawings, dying a very rich man. He was not himself a scholar. He was actively searching out marbles, bronzes, coins and engraved gems as early as 1335, according to his surviving "wish list". His example was innovative in that he did not acquire objects because they were o
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