Monico, Jacopo - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. VIII, p. 776

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

MONICO, JACOPO. — Born at Riese, diocese of Treviso, on 26 June 1778; died at Venice on 25 Apr. 1851. Ordained a priest in 1800, he was called to administer the parish of S. Vito di Asolo, and in 1822 Pius VII elected him bishop of Ceneda; five years later Leo XII promoted him patriarch of Venice, and in 1833 Gregory XVI created him cardinal.

During the events of 1848 he showed moderation and prudence, notwithstanding the stubborn hostility to his work on the part of Daniele Manin and the members of the provisional government. Particularly serious was the invasion of the Patriarchal Palace, carried out by rioters on 3 Aug. 1849: M. was obliged to seek refuge with the Armenians on the island of S. Lazzaro. A most refined man of letters, M. was the author of numerous writings, collected and published in eight volumes under the title Opere socre e letterarie (Venice 1864–70).

BIBL.: U. Bassi, Di corte massime del patriarca di Venezia, Venice 1848; F. M. Zinelli, Lodi di J. M., Treviso 1851; N. Mocenigo, Della letteratura veneziana del sec. XIX, Venice 1901, pp. 309–11 ff., 369; A. Marchesan, Papa Pio X nella sua vita e nella sua parola, Einsiedeln 1904, pp. 50–58; N. Tommaseo-G. Capponi, Cartaggio inedito, II, Bologna 1914, pp. 589–91, 628; N. Tommaseo, Venezia negli anni 1848 e 1849, I, edited by P. Prunas, Florence 1931, passim; II, edited by G. Gambarin, ibid. 1930, passim. Mario de Camillis