The proclamation of the Roman Republic in Piazza del Campidoglio
Author:
Jean Duplessi-Bertaux (1747 - 1819) e Robert Delaunay (1749 - 1814)
Type:
Print
Year:
1798
Material and technique:
(da Carle A. Vernet, 1758 - 1836) Engraving
Inventory:
inv. mn 490
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In 1796 the French army led by the young general Napoleon Bonaparte, fresh from brilliant victories in Piemont and Lombardy, invaded the Legations of Ravenna, Ferrara and Bologna. Pope Pius VI was compelled immediately to sign the Armistice of Bologna, ratified the next year by the Peace of Tolentino, which obliged him to hand over 100 works of art and 100 manuscript books from the Vatican Library.