Vincenzo de Domini (

Casarsa della Delizia Casarsa della Delizia or simply Casarsa (Standard Friulian: , Friulian language#Variants of Friulian, Western Friulian: ) is a (municipality) in the Province of Pordenone, Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone in the Italy, Italian region ...

1816 –

Fiume Rijeka (; Fiume ( �fjuːme in Italian and in Fiuman Venetian) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia. It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and in 2021 had a po ...

1903). Son of Giovanni Fortunato and Chiara Bottigetti. Studied for naval officer he started as a cadet of the

Austrian Navy The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy (, in short ''k.u.k. Kriegsmarine'', ) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. Ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy were designated ''SMS'', for '' Seiner Majestät Schiff'' (His Majesty's ...

. Settled in

in 1846 as professor of Nautical Sciences at the local nautical school. A Venetian patriot, close to the circles of Kossuth, he will be entrusted together with Gaspare Matcovich and

Spiridione Gopcevich Spiridione Gopcevich (, Cyrillic: Спиридон Гопчевић, 1815–1861) was a shipowner from Trieste. Biography Gopchevich was of Serbian origin. His father, Christopher Gopcevich ( Hristifor Gopcevic), born in 1765, originated from th ...

(1815 - 1861) with the project to turn the brick Implacable into a Hungarian man of war. The armament of the ship, commanded by de Domini, led Jelačić to send an expedition and occupy Fiume on 31 August 1848 with Croat troops. After the Hungarian defeat in 1849 de Domini was jailed together with Gaspare Matcovich in the Triestine Castle of San Giusto, because of his involvement as an English agent in the Hungarian revolution. He managed to escape to London. After being amnestied he returned to Fiume where he taught at the local nautical school that at the time of Croatian suzerainty over the city (1849 - 1869) was privatized and renamed Collegio Nautico-commerciale. De Domini was the owner and there he taught Nautical Sciences, writing several books on the subject. Irvin Lukežić, "Prvi profesori nautike u Rijeci", ''Pomorstvo'', (XVII) 2003: 143-151

Books

* ''Compendio di cognizioni nautiche ad uso de´ giovani marini'' (Fiume, E. Rezza, 1858; 2nd ed. Tipo-litografia Mohovich, 1877); * ''Lezioni di manovra navale'' (Fiume, E. Rezza, 1862); * ''Sull´invenzione della bussola nautica. Discorso''. (Fiume, 1861); * ''Le scienze naturali e la nautica'' (Fiume, Mohovich, 1869); * ''Quesiti d´igiene, fisica e meteorologia proposti al XIV Congresso dei medici e naturalisti ungheresi convenuti in Fiume nel Settembre 1869'' (Fiume, Mohovich 1869); * ''Della bussola considerata ne' suoi rapporti alla navigazione. Cenni esposti agli alunni che compivano il corso nauticonel Collegio nautico-commerciale di Fiume all' occasione della chiusura dell'anno scolastico 1857-58'' (Fiume : Tip. di Ercole Rezza, 1858).

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