Francesco Maria, the author of a very valuable work in two volumes, 4to, entitled *Notizie Istorico Critiche sulle Antichità Storia e Letteratura di Ragusa*; but his earliest publication was an Illyrian Grammar. Appendini was born at Turin in 1768; and as a member of a religious fraternity, early sent to Ragusa. There he entered fully into the civil and literary history of his adopted country, which he discussed and illustrated with great success. When the French seized Ragusa, his merits were not overlooked by Napoleon, who placed him at the head of the Appennine Ragusan Academy; and when that little state fell into the possession of the Austrians, that government also appreciating his great merits, set him over the Normal Institution at Zara, an establishment for educating teachers for the various schools of the Illyrian provinces. He died in 1837, greatly esteemed and deeply regretted.—See Tipoldo, *Biografia*.