MOLMENTI, POMPEO GHERARDO

He practiced law, then devoted himself to teaching and literature. He was a municipal councillor in Venice in 1889, deputy to Parliament for the Brescia constituency and later for Salò in 1890; senator in 1909. In 1919–20 he served as the first Undersecretary of State for Fine Arts (in this capacity he clashed with Nathan over the arrangement of the Capitoline Hill and Piazza Colonna). Of liberal sentiments, he criticized the electoral abstention of Catholics. In addition to 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 dogaresia di Venezia* (1884), *Carpaccio e il Tiepolo* (1885), *Sebastiano Veniero e la battaglia di Lepanto* (1892), *I banditi della Repubblica veneta* (1898).