Antonio Fontana

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Antonio Fontana (born November 6, 1784 in Sagno , † December 7, 1865 in Besazio ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic abbot and educator .

Life

Antonio Fontana was a son of Carlo Fontana and his wife Marta, b. Fontana.

He attended the Liceo Gallio in Como . After its completion he received the ordination and the title of abbot. He taught Latin and Greek literature in Como.

In 1804 he was appointed provincial inspector of the elementary schools before he was director of the grammar school in Brescia from 1827 to 1832 ; then he was from 1832 to 1848 general director of the Lombard high schools in Milan . After the uprising of 1848 he was initially released, but was reinstated in the following year, but then retired to Besazio a year later, where he lived until his death.

His extensive library is now in the rectory next to the church in Sagno.

Writing

Antonio Fontana wrote casual poems and religious texts. However, he made a name for himself above all with various school books that were published several times and were widely distributed in Lombardy and Ticino , such as the Grammatica pedagogica elementare della lingua italiana and Il Trattenimento di lettura pei fanciulli di campagna .

Fonts (selection)

  • Saggio filosofico-morale . Casalmaggiore (CR): Bizzarri, 1806.
  • Per i faustissimi imenei del signor Luigi della Porta e della signora Savina Sperati . Como: Per Carl'Ant. Ostinelli, 1809.
  • Per la sacra funzione dell'Entiero, fatta nell'insigne borgo di Canzo, il venedi Santo dell'anno 1812: oda . Como: Tipographer. Carlantonio Ostinelli, 1812.
  • Avvertimenti di Antonio Fontana intorno all Memorie sugli studj del cavaliere Tramassia . Milano: Pirotta, G., 1814.
  • Per le nozze avventurate del signor Luigi Catenazzi professore di storia nell'imperiale regio liceo di Como colla signora Marietta Gilardi. Epigramma . Como: dalla stamperia provinciale di Carlantonio Ostinelli, 1818.
  • Grammatica pedagogica elementare della lingua italiana . 1828.
  • Il Trattenimento di lettura pei fanciulli di campagna . 1832.
  • Manuals per l'educazione umana . Milano: Fontana, Antonio, 1834.
  • Grammatichetta italiana estratta dalla grammatica pedagogica adottata dalla Commisione di pubblica istruzione per testo delle scuole del Cantone Ticino . Lugano: Ruggia, 1836.
  • Guida infallibile per chi cerca la felicità soggiungosi a lume della gioventù alquante note dell'abate Antonio Fontana . Milano 1842.
  • Grammatichetta italiana in cui si epiloga pei fanciulli quanto è detto nella Grammatica pedagogica . Lugano: Presso Franc. Veladini e Comp, 1859.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waltraud Weidenbusch: The Italian in Lombardy in the first half of the 19th century: written and oral varieties in everyday life . Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-8233-5874-X , p. 244 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Sagno | ticino.ch. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fontana, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and educator
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Sagno
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1865
Place of death Besazio