Diodati or Deodati is a
family name
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. The Diodati were a patrician family from Lucca. In Lucca, in the sixteenth century, they commissioned the sculptor and architect Nicolao Civitalia to build the Palazzo Diodati now Palazzo Orsetti. They were forced to move to Geneva due to their adherence to the Protestant religion. The first to convert and to permanently reside in Geneva was Pompeo (1542-1602), son of Niccolò (of Alessandro) (1511-1544) and of his wife Zabetta Arnolfini. Pompeo became a disciple of Pier Martire Vermigli after having been exposed to reformist ideas during his travels to Piedmont and Lyon. In 1563 he was in Venice, in 1564 again in Lyons, in 1565 in Geneva; then in Montargis near Renata d'Este, when he returned to Lucca he was forced to abandon his city having been denounced to the Inquisition. He resided permanently in Geneva from 1572. Pompeo Diodati together with Francesco Turrettini, Orazio Micheli, Fabrizio Burlamacchi, Cesare Balbani, all fellow citizens of Lucca who were exiled for reasons of faith, created the cartel of Geneva silk merchants, called La Grande Boutique.
[Geneve au siecle de la reforme economie et refuge. Memoires et document publies par la societe d'histoire et d'archeologie de geneve tome LII Paperback – January 1, 1987]
Notable people with the name include:
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Charles Diodati
John Milton was involved in many relationships, romantic and not, that impacted his various works and writings.
Marriage Mary Powell
Milton married Mary Powell in May 1642, and, shortly after, she left him and returned to live with her mother. He ...
(1608?–1638), schoolmate and close friend of John Milton
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Élie Diodati
Élie Diodati (Elia, Elias) (1576–1661) was a Genevan lawyer and jurist from a leading Calvinist family in Geneva, who had moved there from Lucca. He is now known as a supporter of Galileo: they started their correspondence in 1620 and met in Fl ...
(1576–1661),
Genevan lawyer
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Fred Diodati
Fred Diodati is the lead singer of The Four Aces. He has intermittently been the lead singer of the Four Aces since 1958, when he replaced Al Alberts. He currently leads a band who refers to themselves as The Four Aces, though all of the songs ...
, lead singer of
The Four Aces since 1956
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Giovanni Diodati or Deodati (1576–1649), Italian Protestant Bible scholar
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Lucio Diodati (born 1955), Italian painter
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Roelof Deodati or Rodolfo Diodati, Dutch governor of Mauritius 1692–1703
See also
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Villa Diodati, manor in Cologny near Lake Geneva, Switzerland
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