BERTOLI, GIANDOMENICO. — Archaeologist, born at Meretto near Udine on 13 March 1676, died at Aquileia on 22 March 1763. He was a canon of Aquileia and studied the antiquities of that city with zeal and intelligence; he assembled a museum of them, which subsequently passed to the Counts Cassis and formed the nucleus of the present one.
He published on the subject a volume that marked an epoch, particularly rich in inscriptions: Le antichità di Aquileia profane e sacre, per le maggior parte finora inedite, raccolte ed illustrate (Venice 1739). He also wrote a continuation, in two further volumes, which remained in manuscript until the years of his death. He set the example of making rational use of epigraphic codices. He also published many dissertations in Calogerà’s collection.