Giampaolo Dionisi Piomarta conte (Verona, February 12, 1886 - Brescia, February 20, 1939) was a collector of art and Italian bibliophile. Biography modifies wikitesto
Cadet of a Veronese aristocratic family has been devoting himself to studying classical and archeology since he was young, enthusiastically studying archeology by participating in expeditions in Peru, Chile, Bolivia, where he was particularly interested in Pumapunku's site Brazil collecting a significant artistic collection dismantled after his death. After moving to South America in 1913, in 1914, he married in Calabria, the Sofia Baffa Trasci, in Argentina for which he had no heirs. Returning to Italy, he saw the wedding ruin after a very short time, and ended with the cancellation. However, thanks to his wife in the Baron Calabrian Baron, Giovanni Barracco became a friend and consultant for the impressive Barracco collection, now preserved in Rome. He returned definitively to Europe from trips to the American continent and then took part in a trip to the Valley of the Kings. As soon as he landed, he contracted a terzana fever in Cairo, which greatly weakened his body, forcing him to return to Italy. Retiring to private life little more than thirty, he died in Brescia on February 20, 1939. Edited by wikitesto Notemodify wikitesto
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