Samuele Romanin

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Bust of Samuele Romanin in the Panteon Veneto of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti , marble, a work by Augusto Benvenuti , created in 1896

Samuele Romanin (born July 27, 1808 in Trieste , † September 9, 1861 in Venice ) was an Italian historian .

life and work

Samuele Romanin was born to Leone di Samuel Vita and Vittoria Bellavita Todeschi. His father belonged to the Jewish community of San Vito al Tagliamento . After the early death of his father, Samuele moved to Venice with his brother Girolamo around 1820. He received his first school education in the Jewish community in Venice, then he studied at the Liceo Foscarini. From 1827 he was admitted as a private tutor, but thanks to his knowledge of the ancient languages ​​as well as French and German - Venice was Austrian - he became a sworn translator in court. At the same time he translated works into Italian, such as the history of the Ottoman Empire by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall or Eduard Duller's Archduke Carl of Austria .

On June 4, 1830, he and Vittoria Dalmedico married, who came from a Jewish family who were at the forefront of the Venetian glass industry. His brother-in-law Angelo Dalmedico supported him in his work. Romanin also maintained contacts with the rabbis Abraham Lattes and Samuel David Luzzatto and with Caterina Franceschi Ferrucci , the founder of the Istituto italiano di educazione femminile , as well as with the poet Eugenia Pavia Gentilomo (1822-1893). His relationships reached as far as France, for example with Augustin Thierry , François Guizot and Adolphe Thiers , who had a strong influence on his work.

His first major historical work, Le storie dei popoli europei dalla decadenza dell 'impero Romano , was published between 1842 and 1844 . It was designed primarily for teaching women. In 1848 his little opus Corso di storia veneta lezione prima was published by Piero Naratovich.

In 1846 he became Corrispondente of the Ateneo veneto ; In 1847 he took part in the IX Congresso degli scienziati italiani in Venice. During the revolution of 1848/49, which he supported, the idea of ​​a new history for Venice matured in him. First he gave lectures at the Ateneo veneto; but he also lectured in the technical schools in Venice. After the Austrians returned, he devoted himself to his main work, the Storia documentata di Venezia . In the years 1853 to 1861 he published this enormous opus in ten volumes, which were also published by Pietro Naratovich. Through his contacts in Florence - for example with Giovan Pietro Vieusseux or Filippo Luigi Polidori - he initially hoped to be able to move the work at Le Monnier, but it was now published in Venice. The last volume was published posthumously by Angelo Dalmedico. Some parts were also published separately, such as Bajamonte Tiepolo e le sue ultime vicende tratte da documenti inediti 1851 or Gli inquisitori di Stato di Venezia 1858 In addition to political history, Romanin was one of the first to try to present the history of society in Venice.

These findings were incorporated into his Lezioni di storia veneta , which he held from 1858 to 1859 at the Ateneo veneto, where he had been librarian since 1852. They were published in Florence in 1875, also posthumously.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Giuseppe Trebbi:  Romanin, Samuele. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 88:  Robusti – Roverella. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2017.
  • Filippo Maria Paladini: Civilizzazione europea, storia italiana e rigenerazione di Venezia in Samuele Romanin , in: Ateneo Veneto 1812–2012. Un'istituzione per la città , Venice 2012, pp. 39–46. ( online , PDF)
  • Elsa Damien: Spatial identities in the nineteenth century: Venice as a case study , in: MDCCC 1 (2012) 93-102, here: pp. 94 f., 98 f. ( online , PDF)
  • Elsa Damien: Narrating Venice in nineteenth century Italy: the notions of municipal and national in Sanuele Romanin's patriotic project , in: Journal of modern Italian studies 16 (2011) 19–36. ( online , PDF)

Remarks

  1. ^ Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall : History of the Ottoman Empire , 10 volumes, Pest 1827–1833.
  2. ^ Eduard Duller : Archduke Carl of Austria , Vienna 1847, published under the title L'arciduca Carlo. Opera biografico-storica , 2 vols., Naratovich, Venice 1845 and 1846 ( vol. 1 , vol. 2, digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Isidore Singer, Umberto Cassuto: PAVIA-GENTILOMO-FORTIS, EUGENIA , in: Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906.
  4. ^ Samuele Romanin: Corso di storia veneta lezione prima , Naratovich, Venice 1848 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Samuele Romanin: Bajamonte Tiepolo e le sue ultime vicende tratte da documenti inediti , Venice 1851.
  6. ^ Samuele Romanin: Gli inquisitori di Stato di Venezia , Venice 1858 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Romanin, Samuele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1861
Place of death Venice