TIPALDO, EMILIO. - Born in Cephalonia on 8 Oct. 1798, died in Mirano (Venice) on 31 March 1878.

Having moved to the Veneto in 1810, from 1826 he was professor of history, geography and maritime law at the Imperial and Royal Naval College of Venice. During the Venetian revolution of 1848-49 he adhered to the provisional government of Daniele Manin, who entrusted him with a directing post in the school administration. Included in the amnesty granted by Francis Joseph after the Austrian restoration, he nevertheless had to give up his chair. His scholarly output includes books on literature and history and translations from Greek: particularly important is the Istoria della letteratura greca profana dalle sue origini alla presa di Costantinopoli. But T.'s name is especially linked to the ten volumes of the Bibliografia degli italiani illustri del sec. XVIII e contemporanei (Venice 1834-45), compiled under his direction by a select group of specialists in the various disciplines and which still constitute a valuable working tool.

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BIBL.: C. Würzbach, Biographisches Lex. des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, XLV, Vienna 1882, pp. 170-71; F. Nani Mocenico, Della letterat. venez. del sec. XIX, Venice 1901; G. Cappello, Le famiglie Bandiera e Graziani nel Risorgimento d'Italia, Rocca S. Casciano 1914, pp. 76-77.

Renzo U. Montini

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Tipaldo, Emilio

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