Lorenzo, an Italian historian and fabulist, was born in 1739 at Figlini, a small town between Florence and Arezzo. His life was characterized throughout by a genial attachment to literature. At the school of Arezzo and the university of Pisa he was distinguished for his devotion to poetry and the classics. While practising as a medical man at Florence, he continued the study of polite learning. At length, after his appointment, in 1774, to the chair of physics at Pisa, his literary zeal vented itself in authorship. With agreeable and well-selected incidents, and in a simple and natural style, he wrote many fables, which soon became known in other countries. A more laborious, though not more successful, undertaking was his History of Tuscany. Commencing at the time of the early Etruscans, he availed himself throughout of all the materials collected by his predecessors. At intervals, his own well-informed mind supplied a fresh and original chapter on such topics as the origin of the Italian language, the revival of letters and arts, and the condition of science at the end of the fifteenth century. He had just brought the entire work to a conclusion, when he died in 1812. It was published under the title of Storia della Toscana sino al Principato con diversi Saggi sulle Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti, in 9 vols. 8vo, Pisa, 1813. An edition of Pignotti's Fables and Poems appeared in 1820.