Copyright and photograph by Manfredi Bellati
Ateneo Veneto
Gianmaria Dona’ dale Rose
L'Antipapa veneziano. Vita del Doge Leonardo
Dona’ 1536-1612
book launch
Walter Mariotti, Gianmaria Dona’ dalle
Rose and Ario Gervasutti
“Gianmaria Dona' Dalle Rose presented his
book L'Antipapa Veneziano -The
Venetian Anti-Pope - about his ancestor, Leonardo
Dona' - 1536-1612 - the 90th Doge of
Venice - to a packed house in the Sala Tommaseo of the Ateneo Veneto, supported
by authors Ario Gervasutti and Walter Mariotti,” writes Cat Bauer in her blog, Venetian Cat - the Venice Blog. “Doge Dona' was the leader of the
Republic of Venice from January 10, 1606 until his death on July 16, 1612.
During his rule, the battle between Church
and State came roaring to a head.”
Copyright and photograph by Manfredi Bellati
Milanese by birth, Gianmaria Dona’ dalle Rose lives
between Milan, Venice and Brussels, and comes from an old aristocratic Venetian family that boasts three Doges. L'Antipapa
Veneziano, published by Giunti Editore, is the first book
written by the successful 20th Century Fox Managing Director of Italy and
Spain, and is available in Italian.
Gianmaria Dona’ dalle Rose, Walter Mariotti, and Ario Gervasutti
Galileo displays his telescope to Doge Leonardo Dona and the Venetian
Senate (painting by HJ Detouche, c. 1754)
Galileo displays his telescope to Doge Leonardo
Dona and the Venetian Senate
Leonardo Dona’ was Doge of Venice from
1606 to 1612. His reign
contained almost
the entire parable of the history of the Republic
of Venice, from its splendors to the beginning of its decline. Born in
1536, in the magnificent Serenissima of great painters,
wealth, commerce, courtesans, that dominated over the seas, he died leaving a
different city, cut off from the great economic routes that had now moved from
the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean and revolted towards the
countryside and the hinterland. The rule of Doge Leonardo Dona’ was therefore
held in crucial years in which the tension with the church of Rome was maximum, in which Europe was crossed by the Counter-Reformation, and the city was
populated by figures called Palladio,
Giordano Bruno, Paolo Sarpi and Galileo
Galilei, who, thanks to Doge Dona’, developed the telescope.
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“L’Antipapa Veneziano” by Gianmaria Dona’ dalle Rose –
Venice vs. Rome – The Battle between Church and State.