Giunio Resti

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Giunio Resti (11 January 1755 - 1814) was a nobleman from the Republic of Ragusa.

[edit] Life

Resti was born in 1755 from a noble Jeronymite family of Ragusa. He studied in the local college of the Jesuits. Humanistic culture and poetry were its prebeloved disciplines. As soon as member of the Greater Council, the legislative assembly of the Republic of Ragusa. It continued the studies in roman and medieval right, philosophy, history, and classic poetry.

[edit] Public life

It was called to make part of the Senate of the Republic, assignment that that knew to cover dearly and been worth the many notorieties in city atmospheres. In 1797 he was elect chancellor, that is head of the State. It abandoned loads after only a month. Made bitter from it intrigues and from the compromises of the political life, it was withdrawn dedicating itself to the composition of satire. She was witness of the entrance to Ragusa of the envoy of Napoleone, general Lauriston, in 1806, of the formal restoration of the old Republic from English part in 1813, of the occupation Austrian in 1814. Sfiduciato, tired and sick man, died 30 March of 1814.

Its works will be collections and published in 1816 to Padova, from Francisco Maria Appendini, with the title it of Junii Antonini contis de Restiis, patrici Ragusini, Carmina (uniforms in four books: to satire, several elegie, epistles, poetries).