Residence in the Roman pension Casa Buti, 46 Via Sistina, first floor.

Primary sources

• Bill dated presumably February 1804 from Camillo Buti to Thorvaldsen (indicates that Thorvaldsen moved to Casa Buti in February 1804. However, see the the discussion concerning the dating).

• Letter dated 4.5.1804 from Fyodor Matveyev to Thorvaldsen (the earliest known letter addressed to Thorvaldsen in Casa Buti).

• Bill dated 22.11.1804 from Camillo Buti (bill for rent for 7 months, i.e. May-November 1804).

• Thorvaldsen’s bills for lodgings 1804-1819.

Other references

• F.C. Hillerup: Italica eller Mindeblomster fra mit Ophold i Italien, København 1829, vol. 2, p. 96-97.

• Friedrich Noack: ‘Casa Buti in Rom’, in: Westermanns illustrierte Deutsche Monatshefte für das gesamte geistige Leben der Gegenwart, vol. 45, Braunschweig 1901, p. 789.

• Friedrich Noack: Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters, 2. bind, Leipzig 1927, p. 594 (“1804 Via Sistina 48-51 (Casa Buti) bis zur Abreise”).

• Hermann Uhde (ed.): Erinnerungen und Leben der Malerin Louise Seidler (geboren zu Jena 1786, gestorben zu Weimar 1866), Berlin 1874, p. 223-224.

• Chronology: 24.3.1844.

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Last updated 15.01.2018