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| Some notable Dalmatian Italians (from left to right): Elio Lampridio Cerva, Marino Ghetaldi, Fausto Veranzio, Giorgio Baglivi, Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich & Niccolò Tommaseo |
(Full biographies: Italian Biographies: Dalmatia)
Brief biographies of some famous Dalmatian Italians, an indigenous ethnic group from Dalmatia. The Dalmatian Italians have an illustrious history and have made notable contributions to culture, religion, military, politics, literature, arts, sciences and civilization, which should not be forgotten.
Dalmatia is a historical Italian region which is today divided between Croatia and Montenegro. The Dalmatian Italians, who have inhabited the region for more than 2000 years, declined in number after the 16th century due to war, pestilence and the migration of Slavic refugees, but continued to form a majority until the 17th century and continued to predominate in all the coastal cities until the 19th and 20th centuries. At the turn of the 19th century, one third of the Dalmatian population was Italian.
The Dalmatian Italians faced persecution and discrimination under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the decades before World War I, the Habsburg government and Pan-Slavists pursued a systematic policy of Slavicization and de-Italianization of Dalmatia, so that by the end of the war the Dalmatian Italians were reduced to a small minority in their own land. The Treaty of Versailles assigned most of Dalmatia to Yugoslavia, causing thousands of Dalmatian Italians to flee to Italy. The Treaty of Rome restored one third of Dalmatia to Italy, allowing the Dalmatian Italians to return home.
Towards the end of World War II the Dalmatian Italians were again targeted and subjected to ethnic cleansing by the Yugoslavs, who invaded Italian Dalmatia and annexed it to Communist Yugoslavia in 1947. About 350,000 Italians from Dalmatia, Istria and the surrounding region of Julian Venetia were forced into exile after the war. Their homes and property were confiscated and their cities were occupied by the Yugoslavs. The Dalmatian Italians and their exiled descendants patiently await the return of their homeland to Italy.
• Paolo Andreis - Italian historian
• Thomas the Archdeacon - Italian historian and priest
• Arnolfo Bacotich - Italian historian and journalist
• Giorgio Baglivi - Italian anatomist, medical scientist and physician
• Antonio Bajamonti - Italian physician and politician
• Giulio Bajamonti - Italian composer, physician, philosopher, polygraph and historian
• Anselmo Banduri - Italian monk, scholar, archaeologist and numismatist
• Federico Bencovich - Italian painter
• Francesco Antonio Bertuccio - Italian diplomat, friar and knight
• Gian Francesco Biondi - Italian writer, diplomat and historian
• Girolamo Bisanti - Italian naval captain; commander in the Battle of Lepanto
• Trifone Bisanti - Italian theologian, diplomat, scholar and bishop
• Savino de Bobali - Italian poet
• Giovanni Bona de Boliris - Italian poet and writer
• Francesco Bolizza - Italian diplomat and courier
• Mariano Bolizza - Italian diplomat, writer, poet and priest
• Natale Bonifacio - Italian carver and engraver
• Bonino de Boninis - Italian publisher, typographer and priest
• Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich - Italian scientist, mathematician, priest and polymath
• Domenico Bucchia - Italian theologian and priest
• Vincenzo Bucchia - Italian theologian and bishop
• Bernardo Caboga - Italian nobleman and military commander
• Biagio Caboga - Italian diplomat and nobleman
• Biagio Bernardo Caboga - Italian nobleman and military commander
• Marino Caboga - Italian lawyer and priest
• Francesco Carrara - Italian archaeologist and priest
• Pietro Canavelli - Italian poet and translator
• Marco de Casotti - Italian journalist and novelist
• Elio Lampridio Cerva - Italian poet and lexicographer
• Serafino Cerva - Italian scholar and priest
• Alvise Cippico - Italian bishop and archbishop
• Alvise Cippico (Luigi Cipoco) - Italian naval captain; commander in the Battle of Lepanto
• Antonio Cippico - Italian politician, poet, patriot, journalist and lecturer
• Coriolano Cippico - Italian historian, landowner and military commander
• Trifone Cocoglia - Italian painter
• Arturo Colautti - Italian journalist, writer and librettist
• Benedetto Cotrugli - Italian merchant, economist and diplomat
• Giovanni Creglianovich-Albinoni - Italian writer, librettist and playwright
• Federico Crisogono - Italian physician and scientist
• Raimondo Cunich - Italian latinist and priest
• Giulio Camillo Delminio - Italian philosopher
• Francesco Suppé Demelli - Italian composer
• Vincenzo Drago - Italian historian
• Francesco Salghetti-Drioli - Italian painter and entrepreneur
• Alessandro Dudan - Italian historian and politician
• Vincenzo Duplancich - Italian journalist, writer and politician
• Roberto Ferruzzi - Italian painter
• Riccardo Forster - Italian poet, journalist and theatre critic
• Giovanni Francesco Fortunio - Italian grammarian, jurist and politician
• Angelo Antonio Frari - Italian physician
• Giuseppe Frari - Italian physician
• Luigi Frari - Italian physician and politician
• Michele Carlo Frari - Italian obstetrician and inventor
• Marco Faustino Gagliuffi - Italian poet
• Bernardino Gallelli - Italian ecclesiastic
• Marino Ghetaldi - Italian scientist and mathematician
• Francesco Ghetaldi-Gondola - Italian politician
• Roberto Ghiglianovich - Italian politician, lawyer and patriot
• Ignazio Giorgi - Italian historian, poet, priest and abbot
• Paladino Gondola - Italian diplomat and merchant
• Nicolò Vito di Gozze - Italian philosopher and politician
• Stefano Gradi - Italian scientist, philosopher, poet and priest
• Gasparo Graziani - Italian polyglot and diplomat; Voivode of Moldavia
• Pope John IV - Italian ecclesiastic; pope
• Natale Krekich - Italian politician and patriot
• Luigi Lapenna - Italian politician
• Francesco Laurana - Italian architect, sculptor and medalist
• Luciano Laurana - Italian architect
• Francesco Leonardi - Italian bishop and missionary
• Giovanni Eleuterio Lovrovich - Italian historian and priest
• Antonio Lubin - Italian writer, teacher and priest
• Giovanni Lucio - Italian historian
• Lorenzo Doimi de Lupis - Italian physician and nobleman
• Girolamo Luxardo - Italian entrepreneur and diplomat; founder of Luxardo liqueur
• Francesco Malipiero - Italian abbot and archbishop
• Girolamo Manfrin - Italian entrepreneur
• Bernardino Marin - Italian bishop
• Giorgio Martinuzzi - Italian statesman, cardinal, archbishop and monk; Regent of Hungary
• Lino Maupas - Italian friar
• Andrea Meldolla - Italian painter and etcher
• Luigi Mion - Italian painter
• Raffaele Molin - Italian scientist, physician, zoologist and geologist
• Michele Monaldi - Italian mathematician, philosopher and poet
• Pietro Doimo Munzani - Italian archbishop
• Nino Nutrizio - Italian journalist and football coach
• Giorgio Orsini da Sebenico - Italian architect, sculptor and urbanist
• Giovanni Battista Benedetti Paladini - Italian naval captain; commander in the Battle of Lepanto
• Nicolò Paladini - Italian naval captain
• Paolo Paladini - Italian poet and naval captain
• Pier Alessandro Paravia - Italian writer, philologist, philanthropist and professor
• Ludovico Pasquali - Italian poet and soldier
• Antonio Pini-Corsi - Italian operatic baritone
• Giuseppe Praga - Italian historian and archivist
• Domenico Ragnina - Italian poet
• Giorgio Raguseo - Italian philosopher, philologist, mathematician, physician and priest
• Oscar Randi - Italian historian
• Francesco Rismondo - Italian soldier and patriot
• Benedetto Rogacci - Italian theologian, grammarian, poet and priest
• Romeo Romei - Italian naval officer, corvette captain and submarine commander
• Martino Rota - Italian engraver, etcher, painter and cartographer
• Giuseppe Sabalich - Italian historian, journalist and poet
• Franco Sacchetti - Italian poet and novelist
• Leonardo Salimbeni - Italian engineer and mathematician
• Ercolano Salvi - Italian politician and patriot
• Giorgio Schiavone - Italian painter
• Federico Seismit-Doda - Italian politician, patriot and journalist
• Giovanni Soglian - Italian teacher and linguist
• Luca Sorgo - Italian composer
• Benedetto Stay - Italian poet and priest
• Giovanni Domenico Stratico - Italian bishop and theologian
• Michele Stratico - Italian composer and violinist
• Simone Stratico - Italian mathematician, physicist and nautical scientist
• Antonio Tacconi - Italian politician
• Ildebrando Tacconi - Italian historian, lecturer and scholar
• Niccolò Tommaseo - Italian linguist, writer and patriot
• Ruggero Tommaseo - Italian journalist, writer and patriot
• Biagio di Giorgio da Traù - Italian painter
• Nicolò Trigari - Italian politician
• Ludovico Cerva Tuberone - Italian historian
• Antonio Varisco - Italian carabiniere officer
• Giorgio Ventura - Italian painter
• Antonio Veranzio - Italian cardinal, archbishop and diplomat
• Fausto Veranzio - Italian philosopher, historian, bishop, inventor, lexicographer and polymath
• Roberto de Visiani - Italian botanist, naturalist, physician and scholar
• Bernardo Zamagna - Italian poet, translator, theologian and priest
• Luigi Ziliotto - Italian politician, lawyer and patriot
• Bernardo Zuzzeri - Italian missionary and priest
• Flora Zuzzeri - Italian poetess
• Giovanni Luca Zuzzeri - Italian numismatist, archaeologist and priest
See also:
Famous Italians From Istria
Famous Italians From Fiume and the Quarnaro
Famous Italians From Eastern Friuli
