Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna

Italian historian

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1789

Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy

Date of Death: 22-Feb-1868

Profession: historian, art historian

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna (17 January 1789, Venice - 22 February 1868) was an Italian writer, scholar and book-collector.
He left his huge collection of books to the city of Venice and it now forms part of the Museo Correr. He was the son of Giovanni Antonio Cicogna and Elisabetta Bortolucci and came from a Candian family which had obtained Venetian citizenship.
His book collection included editions of historical manuscripts, particularly on inscriptions in Venice and its lagoon.
He published well over 100 historical, art-historical and biographical essays, transcriptions, bibliographies and short stories.
His most notable work is the six-volume Delle iscrizioni veneziane, published between 1824 and 1853 - Carlo Dionisotti commented that "There is still no scholar of the Italian Renaissance who can do without the amazing 'iscrizioni veneziane' by Emanuele Cicogna [...]".