Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
FOGAZZARO, GIUSEPPE. - Priest and educationalist, b. at Bergamo on 6 Nov. 1813, d. at Vicenza on 16 Aug. 1901. Ordained in 1836, he devoted himself to education, opening a nursery school at Vicenza in 1839, where shortly afterwards he established a mutual aid society among the diocesan clergy.
A canon, professor at the Vicenza Seminary, and member of the municipal commission for public welfare, he distinguished himself in 1848 by taking part in the provisional committee that assumed the administration of the city, preserving it from the horrors of war. Exiled after the return of the Austrians, he was in Rome, Florence, and Valesida; having returned to Vicenza, he suffered Habsburg persecution while continuing his life as an educator and benefactor. When the Veneto was liberated in 1866, he held public offices in the Vicenza schools, receiving the heartfelt esteem of his fellow citizens until his death at the very advanced age of 88. His nephew Antonio portrayed him in the d. Giuseppe Flores of his Piccolo mondo moderno.
(phot. Anderson)
FOGGIA, DIOCESI di - Façade of the Cathedral (1170-1730).
BIBL.: S. Rumor, D. G. F.: la sua vita e il suo tempo.
Vicenza 1902. Renzo U. Montini
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“FOGAZZARO, GIUSEPPE.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), p. 871. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/fogazzaro-giuseppe.
