Italian historian and palæographer, son of senator Baldassare Paoli; born and educated in Florence. At the age of twenty-one he was given an appointment in the record office of his native city; from 1865 to 1871 he was attached to the Archives of Sienna, but eventually returned to Florence. In 1874 he was appointed first professor of palæography and diplomatics at the Istituto di Studii Superiori in Florence, where he continued to work at the interpretation of MSS. In 1887 he became editor of the Archivio storico italiano, to which he himself contributed numerous articles. His works consist of a large number of historical essays, studies on palæography, transcriptions of state and other papers, reviews, &c.
See C. Lupi, “Cesare Paoli,” in the Archivio storico italiano, vol. xxix. (1902), with a complete list of his works.
