Antonio Lorenzoni

Antonio Lorenzoni (Montecchio Maggiore 10 June 1755 – 30 September 1840) was an Italian lawyer, jurist and music theorist.

Biography Antonio Lorenzoni was born to Pasino Lorenzoni and Elisabetta Sartorio in the family's country house in Montecchio Maggiore near Vicenza.

In his youth, he received a musical education, but the Saggio per ben sonare il Flautotraverso (1779) remains the only evidence of this juvenile passion, which presumably ended with the beginning of his profession as a lawyer.

Having completed the high school education in Vicenza, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Padua, where he obtained a degree in public and private law in 1778. He then began working as a freelance lawyer at the Vicenza Bar until he was promoted in 1813 by the government of the Kingdom of Italy to Avvocato del Fisco, a position he held for thirteen years.

In 1814 he had a new villa built by Bartolomeo Malacarne in place of the house where he was born in Montecchio.

Late in life he acquired a reputation as an influential jurist, so much so that he was esteemed even beyond the borders of Italy.

In 1876 the Municipality of Montecchio Maggiore erected a bust of him in the council chamber of the town hall.

Works

Saggio per ben sonare il Flautotraverso con alcune notizie generali ed utili per qualunque strumento, ed altre concernenti la storia della musica, Vicenza, 1779. Istituzioni del diritto civile privato per la Provincia Vicentina, Vicenza, 1785–86. Stampa in causa dell’eredità Almerico contenente: Risposta della pia Congregazione di Vicenza etc. non che delli signori Tranquillo Toaldo, Francesco dott. Rubini etc. al confronto del sig. Licinio Muzan del fu Carlo, 1817. Istituzioni del diritto pubblico interno pel Regno Lombardo-Veneto, Padova, 1835–39. Scelta di disposizioni del diritto romano, Padova, 1838. Saggio di logica, ossia principii fondamentali per far retto uso delle forze dell’intelletto onde discernere il vero dal falso, Padova, 1839. Regole ed avvertenze che in ordine al venerato dispaccio 9 Settembre 1817 dell’Aulica Camera di organizzazione in Vienna osservare si devono dal R. Fisco per l’esame delle Fidejussioni.