Gioacchino Di Marzo

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Gioacchino Di Marzo
Born2 December 1839  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Palermo   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Died4 April 1916  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (aged 76)
Palermo   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Resting place San Domenico, Palermo   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Nationality Italian
OccupationBibliographer, historian   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Gioacchino Di Marzo (2 December 1839 - 4 April 1916) was an Italian art historian, librarian and Jesuit. He was librarian to the Comunale di Palermo as well as a historiographer and one of the founders of modern Sicilian art history.

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Life

Commemorative plaque in San Domenico church in Palermo SD PA 14 09 2018 14.jpg
Commemorative plaque in San Domenico church in Palermo

Born in Palermo, he was ordained a priest in 1851. He was also Apostolic Protonotary, 'Ciantro' and 'Cappellano Maggiore' to the Cappella Palatina in Palermo. He translated Vito Amico's Lexicon topographicum in 1855, also writing a commentary to it. From 1858 to 1864 he published his four volume Delle Belle Arti in Sicilia dai Normanni alla fine del sec. XVI in Palermo. He died in Palermo in 1916, the same year as Giuseppe Pitrè and Salvatore Salomone Marino, two other major Sicilian cultural figures.

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Honours

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