PREDELLI, RICCARDO. - Scholar, b. at Rovereto on 19 May 1840, d. at Venice on 1 March 1909. Forced to leave his native Trentino because of his Italian sentiments, he moved to Venice, employed at a banking house.
In 1868 his fellow countryman T. Gar, director of the State Archives of Venice, wanted him as his collaborator, and for many decades P. was the soul of the Venetian Archives, where he also took up the teaching of paleography and diplomatics. Not only did he reorganize and catalog the very rich archival collections, but he also published a great quantity of original studies, such as the Saggio di scritture in cifra usate dalla Repubblica veneta, the Regesti del « Liber Communis » and the Libri Commemoriali della Repubblica veneta. He devoted particular care to the investigation of the historical relations between the Most Serene Republic and its Trentino, publishing a very rich selection of Monumenti veneto-trentini. A member of many Italian and foreign academies, he was a leading figure in Venetian Catholic organizations, which led him to serve as a municipal councillor in the Grimani administration. He exercised a beneficial influence on the studious youth, to whom he was an example of integrity of morals and deep piety.
BibliographyA. Segarizzi, R. P., in Archivio trentino, 24 (1909), p. 91 ff.
BIBL.: A. Segarizzi, R. P., in Archivio trentino, 24 (1909), p. 91 ff.
Montini, Renzo Uberto. “Predelli, riccardo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1907. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/predelli-riccardo.
MLA
Montini, Renzo Uberto. “Predelli, riccardo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1907. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/predelli-riccardo.
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@incollection{ec9_predelli_riccardo,
author = {Montini, Renzo Uberto},
title = {Predelli, riccardo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {1907},
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/predelli-riccardo}
}
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