Vincenzo Lunardi

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Vincenzo Lunardi
Vincenzo Lunardi with his assistants George Biggin and Letitia Anne Sage, in a balloon (painting by John Francis Rigaud , 1785)

Vincenzo Lunardi (born January 11, 1759 in Lucca , † August 1, 1806 in Lisbon , Portugal ) was an Italian aviation pioneer and diplomat .

Life

Lunardi was an officer in the Neapolitan engineer troops. Lunardi came to England in 1784 as Secretary of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Naples , Prince Caramanico. After the invention of the balloon in France by Joseph Michel Montgolfier and his brother Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, Lunardi undertook the first balloon flights in the United Kingdom . Lunardi remained unmarried and childless.

literature

  • Leslie Gardiner: Man in the Clouds. The Story of Vincenzo Lunardi. Edinburgh; London: Chambers, 1963. Entitled : Lunardi. The Story of Vincenzo Lunardi. Shrewsberry, England: Airlife Publishing, Ltd. 1984, 192 pp., Illustr.
  • Giulio Costanzi: Lunardi, Vincenzo . In: Enciclopedia Italiana 1934 ( online at treccani.it )

Web links

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Remarks

  1. a b According to a source from 1934, published by the aviation engineer and officer Giulio Costanzi, Lunardi died in 1799. This communication is published in the Italian encyclopedia Treccani , see: Lunardi, Vincenzo. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved on July 31, 2019 .. An exact date with day and month is missing. More modern publications all mention 1806 as the date of death. The Portuguese scientist, physicist and university professor Carlos Fiolhais wrote in 2016: "The Gazeta de Lisboa reported on August 15, 1806 that the intrepid captain died on August 1, 1806 after a long internment in the Italian Capuchin hospice in Lisbon." - The date of birth appears in addition to the date of death 1806, January 11, 1754 instead of 1759, published in 2011 by Marco Majrani, Italian scientific journalist with special commitment in the field of aviation a. a., in his book "Vincenzo Lunardi Aeronauta - L'avventurosa esistenza di un eroe del Settecento", see: Vincenzo Lunardi ( 1754-1806 ) , accessed on July 31, 2019. See also the discussion page for this article .

Individual evidence

  1. Carlos Fiolhais: O intrépido capitão Lunardi , accessed on July 31, 2019 (Portuguese).
  2. Miniature portrait of Vincenzo Lunardi with date of birth 1759 and death date 1806 on the frame , accessed on July 31, 2019.
  3. Rumens, Carol, October 13, 2008. "Poem of the Week: To a Louse," Guardian Books Blog, August 5, 2012, accessed June 11, 2013;
    Georgian London. The Daredevil Aeronaut and Miss Letitia Ann Sage ( Memento June 23, 2012 on the Internet Archive ). Accessed June 30, 2019;
    Science Photo Library. Mrs Sage, first English female aeronaut . Retrieved June 24, 2012.