TIPALDO, EMILIO. – Born in Cephalonia on 8 October 1798, died at 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 I. R. Naval College of Venice. During the Venetian revolution of 1848–49 he joined Daniele Manin’s provisional government, which entrusted him with a senior position in the administration of education. Included in the amnesty granted by Francesco Giuseppe after the Austrian restoration, he nevertheless had to leave his chair. His scholarly output includes works on literature and history, as well as 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 associated with 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 even today constitute a valuable research tool.