Giacomo Nani

Giacomo Nani (also Jacopo ?) (Born January 31, 1725 in Palma , † April 3, 1797 in Venice ) was an admiral and politician of the Republic of Venice .

Life

Nani came from the branch (ramo) of the Nani di San Trovaso family , who had inherited the Doge Agostino Barbarigo . He was born the son of Antonio Nani di Bernardo, who was then provveditore generale of the fortress of Palma, and Lucrezia Lombardo. He embarked on a military career and was, among other things, Capitano in Padua .

In 1756 he wrote a classification of 527 cases (literally: houses) of the Venetian nobility on the basis of tax revenues from 1740. The wealthiest families, which he called "assai ricchi", made up 8.3% of the nobility. They were assigned to class 1. The poorest, "che hanno niente" ('who have nothing') made up 28.6% of the nobility and were assigned to class 5. Almost half of the families newly aggregated through large sums of money were assigned to the two wealthiest classes. According to Nani's calculations , a class 1 casa had an average of 25,000 ducats , the second 13,000 and the third class 6,000 ducats.

Giacomo Nani became Provveditore Generale da Mar (Inspector General for Naval Affairs) and Provveditore ai Lidi (1796). He was in charge of the overall supervision of the fleet and the Lidi, the sandbanks that demarcate the lagoon from the Adriatic .

In 1766, with a small fleet, he forced the Bey of Tripoli to keep a trade agreement signed in 1764. He also earned services in the expansion of the defenses of Venice.

The Nani di San Trovaso had an extensive collection of old paintings, writings and maps in their house, which Giacomo Nani and his brother Giovanni considerably expanded. In the second half of the 18th century it was considered the largest collection of its kind in Venice. Large parts were lost during the Napoleonic occupation of Venice and numerous works were sold. Some of these works are now in the Biblioteca Marciana on St. Mark's Square .

A little more than five weeks before the Republic of Venice dissolved itself on May 12, 1797, Nani died.

Works

• Della difesa di Venezia , ed. by Guerrino Filippi, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti , Venice 1997.
• Principi d'una amministrazione ordinata e tranquilla , 1781.

literature

• Susanna Stoppato: I "Discorsi sul Governo della Repubblica di Venezia" (1782/84). L'approdo al percorso politico di Giacomo Nani , in: Studi Veneziani ns 32 (1996) 211-222.
• Filippo Maria Nani Mocenigo: Agostino, Battista e Giacomo Nani. (Ricordi storici) , 2nd edition, Venice: C. Ferrari 1917 (Conte, who lived from 1847 to 1921, researched the history of his ancestors).
• Piero Del Negro: Giacomo Nani: Saggio politico del Corpo aristocratico della Repubblica di Venezia per l'anno 1756 , in: Rivista Storica Italiana XCII (1980), pp. 793-803.
• Piero Del Negro: Giacomo Nani e l'Università di Padova nel 1781. Per una storia delle relazioni culturali tra il patriziato veneziano ei professori dello Studio durante il XVIII secolo , in: Quaderni per la Storia dell'Università di Padova 13 (1980), Pp. 77-114.
• Piero Del Negro:  Nani, Giacomo. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 77:  Morlini-Natolini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2012.

Remarks

1. ^ Classes of the Venetian patriciate .