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COUNT VINCENZO DANDOLO (1758-1819)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNT VINCENZO See also:DANDOLO (1758-1819)  , See also:Italian chemist and agriculturist, was See also:born at See also:Venice, of See also:good See also:family, though not of the same See also:house as the famous doges, and began his career as a physician . He was a prominent opponent of the oligarchical party in the revolution which took See also:place on the approach of See also:Napoleon; and he was one of the envoys sent to seek the See also:protection of the See also:French . When the See also:request was refused, and Venice was placed under See also:Austria, he removed to See also:Milan, where he was made member of the See also:great See also:council . In 1799, on the invasion of the Russians and the overthrow of the Cisalpine See also:republic, See also:Dandolo retired to See also:Paris, where, in the same See also:year, he published his See also:treatise See also:Les Hommes nouveaux, ou moyen d'operer une regeneration nouvelle . But he soon after returned to the neighbourhood of Milan, to devote himself to scientific See also:agriculture . In 18os Napoleon made him See also:governor of See also:Dalmatia, with the See also:title of provediteur See also:general, in which position Dandolo distinguished himself by his efforts to remove the wretchedness and idleness of the See also:people, and to improve the See also:country by draining the pestilential marshes and introducing better methods of agriculture . When, in 1809, Dalmatia was re-annexed to the Illyrian provinces, Dandolo returned to Venice, having received as his See also:reward from the French See also:emperor the title of See also:count and several other distinctions . He died in his native See also:city on the 13th of See also:December 1819 . Dandolo published in Italian several See also:treatises on agriculture, See also:vine-cultivation, and the rearing of See also:cattle and See also:sheep; a See also:work on See also:silk-See also:worms, which was translated into French by Fontanelle; a work on the discoveries in See also:chemistry which were made in the last See also:quarter of the 18th See also:century (published 1796); and See also:translations of several of the best French See also:works on chemistry .

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