Italian priest, academic, and chess master (1719–1796)
Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (9 November 1719 – 15 July 1796)[1][2] was an Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing.[3]
^Murray, Sunnucks, and Hooper & Whyld give only the birth and death years; the full dates are from Gaige. Murray and Sunnucks give the year of death as 1792, but Gaige and Hooper & Whyld list 1796.