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ROMANIN, SAMUELE (18o8-1861)

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ROMANIN, SAMUELE (18o8-1861) , Venetian historian, was See also:born of a poor Jewish See also:family at See also:Trieste. Being See also:left an See also:orphan at an See also:early See also:age, he provided for his younger See also:brothers and See also:sister by giving See also:French and See also:German lessons. In 1821 be settled in See also:Venice, where he afterwards translated See also:Hammer-Purgstall's Geschichte See also:des osmanischen Reiches into See also:Italian. He next published his own Storia dei Popoli Europei (Venice, 1843-44). He taught in a private school and was sworn interpreter in German to the courts of See also:justice; on the See also:expulsion of the Austrians in 1848 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:history by the provisional See also:government, and he lectured on Venetian history at the Ateneo Veneto. In 1852 he began to publish his monumental Storia documentata di Venezia, but although he finished the See also:work, carrying it down to the fall of the See also:republic in 1798, he did not live to see the publication completed, as he died of See also:apoplexy on the 9th of See also:September 1861; among his papers were found all the documents which were to he added, and the See also:index. The tenth and last See also:volume was issued in 1861 After Romanin's See also:death his lectures on Venetian history were published in two volumes (See also:Florence, 1875). Among his See also:minor See also:works we may mention: Gli Inquisitors di Stato di Venezia (Venice, 1858), Bajamonte See also:Tiepolo e be See also:sue ultime vicende (Venice, 1851), and Venezia nel I789 (Venice, 1860).

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