Marco Foscarini
Marco Foscarini (4 February 1696 in Venice – 31 March 1763 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, writer and statesman who served as the 117th Doge of Venice from 31 May 1762 until his death 14 months later. He studied in his youth in Bologna, and was active as a diplomat, serving as ambassador to the Holy See and to Savoy; he also served as the Procurator of St Mark's for a time. He was succeeded as Doge by Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo.
Marco Foscarini
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- Name
- Marco Foscarini
- Born
- 4 February 1696
- Birthplace
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Died
- 31 March 1763 (aged 67)
- Place of death
- Pontelongo, Republic of Venice
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- writer · diplomat · politician · historian · doge
- Education
- University of Bologna
- Languages
- Italian · Venetian
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Marco Foscarini (4 February 1696 in Venice – 31 March 1763 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, writer and statesman who served as the 117th Doge of Venice from 31 May 1762 until his death 14 months later. He studied in his youth in Bologna, and was active as a diplomat, serving as ambassador to the Holy See and to Savoy; he also served as the Procurator of St Mark's for a time. He was succeeded as Doge by Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo.
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Biography
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Foscarini was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1759, as a 'nobleman of distinguished learning and merit'. Liceo classico Marco Foscarini, a school in Venice, was named after him to honour his History of Venetian literature.
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• Name — Marco Foscarini • Office — Doge of Venice • Term Start — 1762 • Term End — 1763 • Predecessor — Francesco Loredan • Successor — Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo • Born — 4 February 1696 • Birthplace — Venice, Republic of Venice • Died — 31 March 1763 (aged 67) • Place of death — Pontelongo, Republic of Venice
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1695
Marco Foscarini was born on 4 February 1695.
1740
Uffizii di Marco Foscarini, eletto ambasciatore in Savoja nel 19 di novembre 1740 (1858) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1743
Relazione fatta alla Serenissima Veneta Repubblica da Sua Ecc.za Marco Foscarini ambasciatore straordinario nel suo ritorno da Torino nel 1743. (1743) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1747
Degli inquisitori da spedirsi nella Dalmazia orazione di Marco Foscarini cav. e procuratore detta nel Maggior Consiglio il giorno 17 dicembre del 1747 (1831) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1752
Della letteratura veneziana libri otto di Marco Foscarini... Volume primo (1752) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1763
Marco Foscarini died on 31 March 1763.
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- 1.Zuerst veröffentlicht unter dem Titel Discorso di Marco Foscarini Doge di Venezia per la prima volta pubblicato nelle nozze Zen e Correr, Picotti, Venedig 1819 (Digitalisat).
- 2.Das Werk wurde von Carlo Milanesi im Archivio Storico Italiano, App. V [1847] 201–257 publiziert.
- 3.Rembert Eufe: Rhetorik und distanzsprachliche Mündlichkeit: Marco Foscarinis Della improvvisa eloquenza und der Status des Venezianischen, in: Rita Franceschini, Rainer Stillers, Maria Moog-Grünewald, Franz Penzenstadler, Norbert Becker, Hannelore Martin (Hrsg.): Retorica: Ordnungen und Brüche. Beiträge des Tübinger Italianistentags, Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2006, S. 39–53, hier: S. 40 (Digitalisat).
- 4.Luisa Ricaldone (Hrsg.): Necessita della storia e della perfezione della Repubblica veneziana / Marco Foscarini, Franco Angeli, Mailand 1983.
- 5.Nicolò Barozzi (Hrsg.): Marco Foscarini. Di quanto è opportuno a promuoversi alla corte di Roma per onore e per utile della Repubblica veneta, Padua 1863.
- 6.Nicolò Barozzi (Hrsg.): Sulla difesa degli Stati d’Italia per la parte di mare, Venedig 1859.
- 7.Carlo Milanesi (Hrsg.): Delle franchigie concesse agli ambasciatori esterni residenti in Venezia, in: Archivio Storico Italiano, Appendice, IX (1853) 499–537.
- 8.Biblioteca Marciana, Mss. It., cl. VII, 609.
- 9.Luisa Riscaldone (Hrsg.): Necessità della storia e della perfezione della Repubblica veneziana, Franco Angeli, Mailand 1983.
- 10.Giovanna Gronda: Conti, Antonio, in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 28 (1983).
- 11.Veröffentlicht 1854 in Venedig im Werk Della letteratura veneziana ed altri scritti intorno ad essa.
- 12.Giuseppe Gullino: Foscarini, Sebastiano, in: Dizionario biografico degli Italiani 49 (1997).
- 13.Irene Tani (Hrsg.): Le rime di Bernardo Cappello, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venedig 2018, S. 130 (Digitalisat, PDF).
- 14.Joseph Souchon (Hrsg.): Correspondance diplomatique du Comte de Montaigu, ambassadeur a Venise, 1743–1749, Plon-Nourrit, Paris 1915, S. 23 (Digitalisat, Gallica).
- 15.Foscarini, Marco <1696-1763>, Mitgliederliste der Crusca.
- 16.Giovanni L. Fontana, Antonio Lazzarini: Veneto e Lombardia tra rivoluzione giacobina ed età napoleonica. Economia, territorio, istituzioni, Cariplo, 1992, S. 127.
- 17.Marcello Brusegan: I personaggi che hanno fatto grande Venezia, Newton Compton, 2006, S. 180. Sie hinterlegte am 5. Mai 1768 ihr Testament.
- 18.Marco Foscarini certficate of election, Royal Society.
- 19.Digitalisat.
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Recorded positions include Doge of Venice and ambassador. He belonged to Royal Society and Accademia della Crusca. Recorded with the occupation politician. Recorded as writer, diplomat, politician, historian and doge.
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