Giunio Resti

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

[edit] Life

Resti was born in 1755 from a noble 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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Public life

He was member of the Senate of the Republic, an assignment that he fulfilled dearly. In 1797 he was elected chancellor, that is head of the State. He left office after only a month. Made bitter from intrigues and from the compromises of the political life, he was withdrawn dedicating himself to the composition of satire. He was witness of the entrance to Ragusa of the envoy of Napoleon, general Lauriston, in 1806, of the formal restoration of the old Republic from English part in 1813, of the occupation Austrian in 1814. Dispirited, tired and sick, he died on 30 March 1814.

His works were 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).^{[citation needed]}