Visconti
Visconti names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Visconti the name of one of the most illustrious families of Lombardy
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the name of one of the most illustrious families of Lombardy, which rose to the sovereign rank in northern Italy in the 13th century, and was equally distinguished by the share it took in the political contests of the Middle Ages, and by the services which it rendered to literature and science. The name Visconti is derived from the Latin vice-comites, and at first was merely the title of an office, but it gradually became 6 GIOVANNI VISCONTI a family surname, though when it came to be applied to this family authentic history fails to explain. The power of Visconti began in 1277, when Ottone Visconti, archbishop of Milan, vanquished his popular opponents headed by by Martino della Torre, and became perpetual Lord of Milan.. Two of the most important members of the family were Matteo, who was compelled to resign by Pope John XXII.; and Giovanni Galeazzo, who brought the power and grandeur of Visconti to its highest point. He founded the library at Paris; the Cathedral of Milan, etc.; and conquered Padua, Verona, Vicenza, etc. In 1441, Filippo-Maria Visconti engaged the services of Francesco Sforza, to whom he gave his natural daughter Bianca in marriage; and on his death in 1447 the Visconti family was succeeded by that of Sforza in the lordship of the Milanese. と MATTEO VISCONTI
Visconti ENNIO QUIRINO, an Italian archæologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ENNIO QUIRINO, an Italian archæologist; born in Rome, Italy, Nov. 1, 1751. In his 14th year he translated into Italian verse the "Hecuba" of Euripides. His greatest work is "Grecian Iconography" (3 vols. He visited London at the vols. 1808). invitation of Lord Elgin to inspect the Elgin Marbles, 1817, and wrote "Memoirs on the Works of Sculpture from the Parthenon" (1818). He died Feb. 7, 1818.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The dynastic history Collier's set out in 1921 still stands: Ottone Visconti's victory in 1277, the peak under Giangaleazzo, and the handover to Francesco Sforza after Filippo Maria's death in 1447 are all as historians tell it today. What has shifted is where the name now leads: for most readers it belongs first to Luchino Visconti (1906-1976), a descendant of a cadet branch and the director of "Ossessione," "The Leopard" and "Death in Venice," a figure no one on this shelf could have anticipated. Collier's line that Giangaleazzo "founded the library at Paris" is a compression of a real story: the Visconti-Sforza library at Pavia was carried off to France after the invasion of 1499 and absorbed into the royal collection that became the Bibliotheque nationale. The archaeologist Ennio Quirino Visconti's report endorsing the Elgin Marbles as genuine fifth-century Parthenon work is now read chiefly as a document in the long restitution argument between London and Athens.
Written for this edition, 2026.