Antonio Lorenzoni (

Montecchio Maggiore Montecchio Maggiore ( vec, Montécio Majore) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is situated approximately west of Vicenza and east of Verona; SP 246 provincial road passes through it. Montecchio Maggiore bord ...

10 June 1755 – 30 September 1840) was an Italian

lawyer A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solic ...

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

and

music theorist Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...

Biography

Antonio Lorenzoni was born to Pasino Lorenzoni and Elisabetta Sartorio in the family's country house in

near

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan. Vicenza is a th ...

. In his youth, he received a

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

al education, but the ''Saggio per ben sonare il Flautotraverso'' (1779) remains the only evidence of this juvenile passion, which presumably ended with the beginning of his profession as a

. Having completed the high school education in

, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

, where he obtained a degree in

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and

private law Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the ''jus commune'' that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts and torts (as it is called in the common law), and the law of obligations ( ...

in 1778. He then began working as a freelance lawyer at the Vicenza Bar until he was promoted in 1813 by the government of the

Kingdom of Italy The Kingdom of Italy ( it, Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Kingdom of Sardinia, Sardinia was proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed King of Italy, until 1946, when civil discontent led to ...

to Avvocato del Fisco, a position he held for thirteen years.Dal Ferro, Pietro (1840). ''Necrologia. L’avvocato Antonio Lorenzoni di Vicenza''. Vicenza. p. 5. In 1814 he had a new villa built by Bartolomeo Malacarne in place of the house where he was born in

Montecchio Montecchio is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 50 km south of Perugia and about 30 km northwest of Terni. Montecchio borders the following municipalities: Avigliano Umbro, ...

. Late in life he acquired a reputation as an influential jurist, so much so that he was esteemed even beyond the borders of Italy. On his death, a municipal decree had his body moved to the Vicenza cemetery, near the tombs of the most illustrious citizens. In 1876 the Municipality of Montecchio Maggiore erected a bust of him in the council chamber of the town hall.

Works

* ''Saggio per ben sonare il Flautotraverso con alcune notizie generali ed utili per qualunque strumento, ed altre concernenti la storia della musica'', Vicenza, 1779. * ''Istituzioni del diritto civile privato per la Provincia Vicentina'', Vicenza, 1785–86. * ''Stampa in causa dell’eredità Almerico contenente: Risposta della pia Congregazione di Vicenza etc. non che delli signori Tranquillo Toaldo, Francesco dott. Rubini etc. al confronto del sig. Licinio Muzan del fu Carlo'', 1817. * ''Istituzioni del diritto pubblico interno pel Regno Lombardo-Veneto'', Padova, 1835–39. * ''Scelta di disposizioni del diritto romano'', Padova, 1838. * ''Saggio di logica, ossia principii fondamentali per far retto uso delle forze dell’intelletto onde discernere il vero dal falso'', Padova, 1839. * ''Regole ed avvertenze che in ordine al venerato dispaccio 9 Settembre 1817 dell’Aulica Camera di organizzazione in Vienna osservare si devono dal R. Fisco per l’esame delle Fidejussioni.''

References

External links

Full text of the ''Saggio per ben sonare il Flautotraverso'' (Vicenza, 1779)

Franco Alberto Gallo, ''Il ‘Saggio per ben sonare il flautotraverso‘ di Antonio Lorenzoni nella cultura musicale italiana del Settecento,'' in ''La Rassegna Musicale'', 31/1 (1961), p. 103-111.

Enrico Coden, ''Zwischen Plagiat und Originalität. Eine kritische Lektüre des Saggio von Antonio Lorenzoni'', Tibia - Online-Portal für Holzbläser, 07/12/2020
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lorenzoni, Antonio Italian music theorists 19th-century Italian lawyers 19th-century Italian jurists 1755 births 1840 deaths People from the Province of Vicenza University of Padua alumni

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