Nicolò Papadopoli Aldobrandini

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Papadopoli on a photograph taken around 1900

Nicolò Papadopoli Aldobrandini (born May 23, 1841 in Venice , † February 17, 1922 in Rome ), until 1905 Nicolò Papadopoli , was an Italian politician , entrepreneur and numismatist .

Life

The Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal , in front of it Palazzo Tiepolo. The palace was also the seat of the Istituto di scienze marine until 2015 , when it was taken over by a hotel chain

origin

Nicolò Papadopoli on his father's side came from a noble Greek family, his mother Maddalena came from the Aldobrandini family. The paternal family included the notary Giovanni Papadopoli, the father of the Cretan historian Niccolò Papadopoli Comneno (January 6, 1655 - January 20, 1740). The family moved from Candia to Corfu in the 16th century and to Venice in the late 18th century, where they received the cittadinanza in 1792 . In 1814 Angelo Papadopoli bought the entire property from Raffael Vivante, who was in economic difficulties, for 120,000 lire. Nobilitated in 1821, Angelo died in 1833 and left his property to his son Spiridone. Spiridone, honorary consul of Belgium and director of the Compagnia dei Veneti Assicuratori and owner of a mining company, was considered one of the most important operators of the connection between Venice and Italy. At the same time he was "the generous patron of the arts". He promoted the painter Pompeo Marino Molmenti (1819–1894), with whom he was friends as well as with Ettore Tito (1859–1941). The painting of the two daughters Nicolò Papadopolis, Le gemelle Vera e Madda Papadopoli, is attributed to the latter . Spiridone's brother Angelo († 1844), who was friends with Giacomo Leopardi , founded the Tipografia del Gondoliere with Luigi Carrer, Francesco Duprè and Giovanni Gherardini . With the death of Spiridone in 1859, the family inheritance in San Polo went to his uncle Giovanni (1786–1862), his father's brother. He had the church of San Giorgio dei Greci renovated. At the age of 52 he married the much younger Maddalena degli Aldobrandini. Their daughter Sofia died at the age of three. The two sons were Nicolò and Angelo .

Economic circumstances, family, politicians

Nicolò's father Giovanni was raised to the rank of count in 1857, two years before his death. Nicolò Papadopolis mother Maddalena (1816-1877) was an Aldobrandini and therefore in 1905 he received permission to use her name as well. In 1861 she had inherited a palace in Florence from her brother, the last representative of the Florentine branch of the family, which Nicolò sold to a certain Modigliani. The couple were banished from the Austrian part of Italy together with their brother Angelo and fled to Piedmont . There he joined the army, which finally succeeded in occupying Veneto in 1866 . The family now returned to Venice.

Nicolò married the Croatian noblewoman Elena Hellenbach de Pacsolay (1862-1939) in Zagreb in 1880 , with whom he had twin daughters in 1883, namely Maria Maddalena and Clotilde (Vera). The latter married Gilberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga at the age of 19.

Nicolò Papadopoli became a banker, owned land in Trevigiano and was one of the wealthiest men in Venice. It was related to the so-called " Gruppo veneziano ", a group of Venetian politicians and entrepreneurs under the leadership of Giuseppe Volpi and Vittorio Cini , which increasingly dominated the economy and politics of the city. From 1864 he owned the palace in Venice from the mid-16th century, to which Gian Giacomo de 'Grigi is attributed. His daughter Vera Clotilde (1883–1946) later inherited this palace.

He was involved as an advocate of right-wing liberal politics in the municipality, from 1874 to 1882 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for three legislative periods - he represented Castelfranco Veneto and Pordenone - and in 1891 he became a senator . He was also a member of the Consiglio superiore della Banca Nazionale and President of the Consiglio direttivo of the Scuola Superiore del Commercio and President of the Consiglio direttivo of the Museo Correr .

The villa in San Polo di Piave during the First World War
The villa rebuilt in 2006

In 1872 Nicolò Papadopoli founded the Società veneziana di navigazione a vapore , which operated steamboats in the city for the first time. In 1900 he founded a mining company in Carinthia , and in the same year he became a member of Cellina , which dealt with the exploitation of Veneto's water resources. Papadopoli took part in the expansion of Marghera from 1917 , for which he founded the Società Adriatica di Elettricità . He also participated in the urban path lighting in the historic center of Venice.

Towards the end of the First World War , his villa in San Polo sul Piave was destroyed. He had it rebuilt in 1919 by the architect Brenno del Giudice . The paintings in the villa were made by Guido Cadorin (1892–1976).

numismatist

In his Venetian palace, Papadopoli collected coins, a collection that he bequeathed to the Museo Correr in 1922 . Papadopoli belonged to the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti from 1885, in 1908 he became its vice-president and from 1911 to 1913 he was president of the institute.

His first contribution to numismatics was a twelve-page work on Venetian coins for Crete under the title Alcune monete veneziane per Candia (1871), reprinted in the Archivio Veneto in 1873 , followed by Monete inedite delle zecche minori dei Gonzaga esistenti nella raccolta Papadopoli . Occasionally at various conferences and at ministries he tried to draw attention to the fact that the completely scattered coin stocks were in no way recorded and accessible to research. His own collection consisted of 17,367 coins, including around 2,000 gold coins. He bequeathed this collection to the commune on the condition that it was recorded in a catalog that actually appeared in 1925.

Main work

  • Le monete di Venezia descritte ed illustrate da Nicolò Papadopoli con disegni di C. Kunz , 3 volumes, Ongania, Venice 1893–1919 (Vol. 1: Dalle origini a Cristoforo Moro 1156–1471 , Venice 1893 ( online , PDF), Vol. 2: Da Niccola Tran a Marino Grimani (1472–1605) , Tipografia Emiliana, Venice 1907 ( online , PDF), vol. 3: Da Leonardo Donà a Lodovico Manin , Venice 1919); Reprinted in one volume, Bologna 1967 ( text from the Gutenberg project (PDF)).

literature

  • Nicla Angiolini: Il Castello Papadopoli Giol ed the parco "paesaggistico" a San Polo di Piave. Storia, vicende e contesto di un gioiello neogotico nella marca trevigiana , tesi di laurea, Venice 2013, pp. 24–28 ( online , PDF).
  • Niccolò Papadopoli Aldobrandini , in: La Bibliofilía. Rivista di storia del libro e delle arti grafiche di bibliografia ed erudizione, 24 (1923), p. 384 (brief biographical information)
  • Giuseppe Castellani: Nicolò Papadopoli Aldobrandini , in: Società numismatica Italiana. I Grandi Numismatici ( online , PDF). (Obituary from April 1922 with list of publications)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Alfred Vincent: Comedy , in: David Holton (ed.): Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete , Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 103–128, here: p. 103, note 2. He wrote the Historia Gymnasii Patavini , Venice 1726 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Quaderni per la storia dell'Università di Padova 15 (1982), p. 122.
  3. ^ Nicla Angiolini: Il Castello Papadopoli Giol ed il parco "paesaggistico" a San Polo di Piave. Storia, vicende e contesto di un gioiello neogotico nella marca trevigiana , tesi di laurea, Venice 2013, p. 23.
  4. ↑ In the Salzburger Landes-Zeitung it was noted that the Austrian Emperor "graciously deigned to approve", "that the Nobile Giovanni Papadopoli may continue the Conte title that has always been attached to him." (Salzburger Landes-Zeitung, March 14, 1857 ( Digitized version )).
  5. ↑ Papadòpoli at treccani.it.
  6. ↑ Leonardo Ginori Lisci: I palazzi di Firenze nella storia e nell'arte , 2 vols., Florence 1972, vol. 1, p. 284.
  7. ^ Enciclopedia delle famiglie Lombarde
  8. ↑ Maurizio Reberschak: Storia di Venezia. L'ottocento e il novecento , part 2: Gli uomini capitali: il "gruppo veneziano" .
  9. ↑ His brother Angelo (1843–1919) was a member of parliament from 1880 to 1913: entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati .
  10. ↑ The Connoisseur 65-67 (1923), p. 245.
  11. ↑ Gianjacopo Fontana: Venezia monumental. I Palazzi , Filippi, Venice 1967, p. 67.
  12. ^ Nicolò Papadopoli: Di alcune monete veneziane per Candia , tip. del Commercio, Venice 1871 (12 pages, one plate).
  13. ^ Alcune monete veneziane per Candia , in: Archivio veneto 2 (1871).
  14. ^ Nicla Angiolini: Il Castello Papadopoli Giol ed il parco "paesaggistico" a San Polo di Piave. Storia, vicende e contesto di un gioiello neogotico nella marca trevigiana , tesi di laurea, Venice 2013, p. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Papadopoli Aldobrandini, Nicolò
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Papadopoli, Nicolò
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, entrepreneur and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1922
Place of death Rome