Scipione Maffei

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Scipione Maffei (b. 1675 in Verona - d. 1755 in Verona) was in Italian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays.

He is also known for having written an influential article about the first pianoforte instruments of Bartolomeo Cristofori, which initiated the second generation of piano-makers in Italy at that time.

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