Dante Di Serego Alighieri
Dante Di Serego Alighieri , sometimes also Dante Alighieri Di Serego , was Mayor of Venice from 1879 to 1881 and from 1883 to 1888. He was followed in November 1888 by Lorenzo Tiepolo . In Di Sergo's time, the first motorization of public shipping, the expansion of the railway connections, the first efforts to legalize strikes and the founding of the Gazzettino , the local daily newspaper. The engineering transformation of the city and lagoon also began at this time, as did the increased public cult around cultural and national political heroes.
Life
Di Serego was first elected mayor in 1878 and was re-elected on April 16, 1883. On September 15, 1885, he was confirmed in his office, which he held until June 2, 1888.
He strongly promoted the memory of the revolutionary uprisings in Venice and was one of the driving forces behind the expansion of Calle larga XXII Marzo in 1880. He also promoted the expansion of the railway line from Mestre to Portogruaro .
Between 1880 and 1883 the Cassa di risparmio , the local savings bank, was built, which was a massive intervention in the appearance of the square. The same applied to the widening of the Strada Nova up to the Ponte di S. Moisè. For a school building, the Gaspare Gozzi , the barracks of S. Francesco di Paola, which was actually a former convent where soldiers were stationed, were demolished.
In 1880 the Museo Correr was inaugurated on the basis of the foundation of Todaro Correr , at that time not far from the Fontego dei Turchi .
In 1881 Venice had 129,851 inhabitants, and on April 24 of that year the first steam-powered ship, a vaporetto, sailed the Grand Canal . The gondoliers , who went on strike unsuccessfully from November 1st, resisted its introduction . 2000 families were affected by the overwhelming competition. The mayor asked them to end the strike. They had to give in after a few days, especially since the steamships were secured by soldiers and sailors. In 1882 the expansion of the port of Lido began , where a police station was built in 1884, and in 1883 vaporetti drove for the first time from the Lido to San Zaccaria .
In 1886 striking workers who had been on strike for higher wages from 1884–85 were acquitted for the first time.
After Daniele Manin had erected a statue, a statue for Niccolò Tommaseo , a work by Francesco Barzaghi , followed in 1882 , one for Giuseppe Garibaldi , which was by Augusto Benvenuti , and finally one for King Vittorio Emanuele II , a work by Giulio Monteverde . On February 16, 1883 Richard Wagner was transferred to Bayreuth with a solemn ceremony ; he had lived in the Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi until his death on February 13th . In 1884, Bernardino Alvise Barozzi, the last nobleman to be entered in the Golden Book , died.
On December 14, 1886, Mayor Di Serego presented a plan to redevelop the city. The historian Pompeo Molment turned against these plans on February 1, 1887. In March, the later most important Venetian daily newspaper, the Gazzettino, was founded .
literature
- Art. Serègo Alighièri, Dante di , in: Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, Enciclopedia online.
Remarks
- ↑ Sergio Barizza: Il Comune di Venezia, 1806-1946 , Venice, 1987, p. 38
- ↑ Giannandrea Mencini: sull'onda viva del mare Moto Ondoso.. Storia di un problema , Rome 2000, p. 21.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Serego Alighieri, Dante Di |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alighieri, Dante Di Serego |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Venice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th century or 19th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th century or 20th century |
| Place of death | Venice |