MOLMENTI, POMPEO GHERARDO. - Writer, historian and parliamentarian, b. in Venice on 1 Sept. 1852, d. in Rome on 24 Jan. 1928.
He practiced law, then devoted himself to teaching and letters. Municipal councillor of Venice in 1889, deputy in Parliament for the constituency of Brescia and then of Salò in 1890; senator in 1909. In 1919-20 he was the first undersecretary for Fine Arts (in this capacity he clashed with Nathan over the arrangement of the Capitoline and of Piazza Colonna). Of liberal sentiments, he criticized the electoral abstention of Catholics. Besides the two novels Dolor and Clara (1875), he published Carlo Goldoni (1875), La storia di Venezia nella vita privata, dalle origini alla caduta della Repubblica (1879 and 1927), La dogaressa di Venezia (1884), Carpaccio e il Tiepolo (1885), Sebastiano Veniero e la battaglia di Lepanto (1892), I banditi della Repubblica veneta (1898).
BibliographyA. Fradletto, P.G.M., in Atti del R. Istituto veneto, 88 (1929), pp. 57-84.
BIBL.: A. Fradletto, P.G.M., in Atti del R. Istituto veneto, 88 (1929), pp. 57-84.
Moreschini, Augusto. “Molmenti, pompeo gherardo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 1229. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/molmenti-pompeo-gherardo.
MLA
Moreschini, Augusto. “Molmenti, pompeo gherardo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1229. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/molmenti-pompeo-gherardo.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec8_molmenti_pompeo_gherardo,
author = {Moreschini, Augusto},
title = {Molmenti, pompeo gherardo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {1229},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/molmenti-pompeo-gherardo}
}
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