See also: Artaud

Alexis-François Artaud de Montor , born with Paris the July 21st 1772 and died in Paris the November 12th 1849, is a diplomat, historian, translator and collector French.

Emigrant during the Revolution, it fights in Champagne in the Armée with the emigrants. Napoleon appoints it secretary of French legation with Rome, then person in charge with Florence in 1805. He is then critic during the last years of the Empire, then embassy secretary in Vienna and Rome under the Restauration. He gathers during his stay in Italy of many Italian tables primitive, of which he is one of the first collectors. He withdraws in 1830 to devote himself to his work literary and historical and he is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1830.

Its translation of the Divine comedy , like its observations on Italy, in its time were very estimated. Several of its historical works were translated into Italian and English.

Works

• History of the assassination of Gustave III, king de Suède, by a Polish officer, eyewitness (1797)
• Considerations on the state of painting in Italy, in the four centuries which preceded that by Raphaël, by a member of the Academy of Cortone. Work being used as reasoned catalog with a collection of tables of XIIe, XIIIe, XIVe and XVe centuries (1808)
• Voyage in the catacombs of Rome (1810). Text in line
• Machiavel, its genius and its errors (1833)
• Italy (1835). Text in line
• History of the pope Black and white VII (1836)
• History of the life and political work of the count d' Hauterive, including/understanding most of the acts of the French diplomacy, since 1784, until in 1830 (1839)
• History of Dante Alighieri (1841)
• History of the pope Black and white VIII (1844)
• Considerations on the reign of the first fifteen popes who bore the name of Gregoire (1844)
• Choisissez! Or faith and the charter or the university monopoly, by a father (1845)
• Considerations on Jerusalem and the tomb of Jesus-Christ, followed Information on the Brother-Minors and the Order of the knights of the Holy Sepulchre (1846)
• History of Roman sovereign pontiffs (8 volumes, 1848-49)
• History of the pope Leon XII (2 volumes, 1849)
• Roman Papacy and riots (1849)

• the Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri (1811-13)
• Jerusalem delivered of the Cup, translated into worms (2 volumes, 1818)

• Encyclopedia of the society peoples, universal repertory of sciences, the letters and arts, with notes on the principal historical families and the characters famous, died and vivans, by a company of savans, literary men and artists, French and foreign (22 volumes, 1833-1844). Text in line (XXII-2)