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DANDOLO, VINCENZO, COUNT (1758-1819)
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See also:DANDOLO, VINCENZO, See also:COUNT (1758-1819) , See also:Italian chemist and agriculturist, was See also:born at See also:Venice, of See also:good See also:family, though not of the same See also:house as the famous doges, and began his career as a physician. He was a prominent opponent of the oligarchical party in the revolution which took See also:place on the approach of See also:Napoleon; and he was one of the envoys sent to seek the See also:protection of the See also:French. When the See also:request was refused, and Venice was placed under See also:Austria, he removed to See also:Milan, where he was made member of the See also:great See also:council. In 1799, on the invasion of the Russians and the overthrow of the Cisalpine See also:republic, Dandolo retired to See also:Paris, where, in the same See also:year, he published his See also:treatise See also:Les Hommes nouveaux, ou moyen d'operer une regeneration nouvelle. But he soon after returned to the neighbourhood of Milan, to devote himself to scientific See also:agriculture. In 18os Napoleon made him See also:governor of See also:Dalmatia, with the See also:title of provediteur See also:general, in which position Dandolo distinguished himself by his efforts to remove the wretchedness and idleness of the See also:people, and to improve the See also:country by draining the pestilential marshes and introducing better methods of agriculture. When, in 1809, Dalmatia was re-annexed to the Illyrian provinces, Dandolo returned to Venice, having received as his See also:reward from the French See also:emperor the title of count and several other distinctions. He died in his native See also:city on the 13th of See also:December 1819. Dandolo published in Italian several See also:treatises on agriculture, See also:vine-cultivation, and the rearing of See also:cattle and See also:sheep; a See also:work on See also:silk-See also:worms, which was translated into French by Fontanelle; a work on the discoveries in See also:chemistry which were made in the last See also:quarter of the 18th See also:century (published 1796); and See also:translations of several of the best French See also:works on chemistry. End of Article: DANDOLO, VINCENZO, COUNT (1758-1819)Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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