Daniele Renier

Daniele Renier (* 1768 in Venice ; † June 16, 1851 in Venice) was from 1806 to 1811 the first mayor ( Podestà at that time ) of Venice appointed by the French . He was followed in February 1811 by Bartolomeo Gerolamo Gradenigo . From 1842 to 1846 Renier was the sixth President of the Ateneo Veneto .

Life

Daniele Renier was the son of Lancilotto Maria Renier and Elisabetta Curti. He was only distantly related to the penultimate Venetian doge Paolo Renier . As part of the Republic of Venice , he pursued a legal career and worked on the Quarantia , the Supreme Court. In 1801 he became an advisor to the Austrian government, although there were reservations because of his youth and his limited experience. When Venice came to France in 1806, the Viceroy Eugène Beauharnais made him mayor of the city by decree, which gave him the official title of Podestà on December 12, 1806 .

The Viceroy Eugène Beauharnais, who arrived in Venice on February 3rd on the boat from Mestre that he had sent to meet him , put Daniele Renier at the head of the city by a solemn act. Nine savi (wise men) stood by his side. On August 16, a bust of Napoleon was presented to the public in the Arsenal, the work of Pietro Cardelli .

First all economic reforms were stopped on November 29, 1806, but this decree was repealed on January 16, 1807. In January 1807 the large wheat storage facility at the Doge's Palace was demolished at Napoleon's behest, just as the Church of San Geminiano was destroyed on May 19, 1806 . Numerous other buildings were rededicated by the French and adapted to their mostly military needs. The corporations were abolished, as were the monasteries. A welfare organization took over their charitable tasks, and elementary schools like that of Santa Caterina were established. The Teatro San Cassiano was closed in 1807 and also demolished in 1812.

The seat of the main church of the patriarch was moved from Castello to San Marco . Xavier Gamboni Nicola , appointed by Napoleon, was the new patriarch, followed by Nicola Saverio Gamboni in 1807 . After his death on October 21, 1808, the seat remained vacant until 1811. On April 23, 1810, 26 monasteries were closed.

The Napoleonic wing (ala napoleonica) on St. Mark's Square

From November 29th to December 8th, 1807 Napoleon stayed in Venice. Beauharnais became Prince of Venice on December 20th. In 1810 an optical telegraph connected Venice with Milan for the first time . That same year, the Napoleonic wing of the created Magistrates on Piazza San Marco .

On December 21, 1809, a meeting took place at Renier's, from which we know that the six paintings by Titian , which were in the small church of S. Nicolò di Palazzo, had simply been whitewashed and that the convent was converted into a barracks had been. Renier called a meeting for January 19, 1810, at which Leopoldo Cicognara , President of the Accademia di Belle Arti , the secretary Antonio Diedo, the architects Selva and Mezzani, the painters David Rossi , Morelli and Filiasi were present. Since Napoleon demanded that the most important works of Venetian art and the most important books and source works be brought to Paris , they wanted to protest. But their request was rejected, search commissions visited the archives and libraries and demanded that the most important works be named and published.

But there was resistance in Venice. Beauharnais disliked the excessive freedom of speech in Venice and the disrespect for the French emperor. On January 6, 1811, Napoleon wrote to the viceroy: “There is unrest in Venice. They stage useless religious scenes; arranges orders and carries out examples to end this turbulence. ”Two days later, Napoleon from the Tuileries issued the dismissal decree for the Podestà Daniele Renier.

Renier became socio des Ateneo Veneto in 1812 and became its president much later, from May 1842 to July 1846. Renier went to Vienna in 1814 and became Austria's special advisor on Venetian issues. On December 16, 1817 he received the title of Conte dell'Imperio (Count of the Empire), he was also Commendatore dell'Italico Ordine della Corona Ferrea and Imperial Regio Ciambellano .

In 1846 he retired from public office to his home in Trivignano , where he died on June 16, 1851.

Web links

• di Daniele Renier, 1 ° Podestà / Sindaco di Venezia

Remarks

1. ↑ Fabio Mutinelli: Annali delle province Venete dall'anno 1801 al 1840. Venice 1843, p. 49f.
2. ↑ Gérard Hubert: La Sculpture dans l'Italie napoleonienne , de Boccard, Paris 1964, p. 264.
3. ^ Filippo Nani Mocenigo: Del dominio napoleonico a Venezia (1806-1814). Merlo, Venice 1896.

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Mayor of Venice 1806–1811	Bartolomeo Gerolamo Gradenigo