Giovanni Antonio Baldini, Count ( 1654 - 1725 )

Birth: Piacenza, Italy (07 or 08 July 1654) Death: 23 January or 23 February 1725 Research Field: Mathematics, history Education: Convent of St Francis Xavier, Bologna; Seminary in Rome Career: Travelled in France and Poland; Ambassador Extraordinary of the Duke of Parma to Spain (where he stayed for nine years), to Vienna and to London; Delegate at the Congress of Utrecht (1713); went to Amsterdam, where he added a collection of Indian and Chinese objects to his cabinet of curiosities, which greatly impressed Antonio Valisnieri (FRS 1703) when he visited it in Piacenza (1719); died of apoplexy Membership: Fellow Election Date: 29/01/1713.