Pasqualino Gobbi

Pasqualino Gobbi (fl. late 17th century – early 18th century) was an Istrian Italian scholar, Roman Catholic cleric and author, who became canon and Archdeacon in Pola. A doctor of both laws, he authored the chronicle Storia di Pola.

Biography Gobbi was born in Pisino in the second half of the 17th century. According to university records, the Pasqualino Gobbi who studied in Padua since 1699 and graduated in 1709, was a native of Pisino. describe him as a native of Fasana.

In the last years of the 17th century, he went to study in Padua, at the local university, where he studied through 1699. He became doctor of laws, to then embrace an ecclesiastical career.

Gobbi then became canon and vicar general in Pola, becoming the archdeacon in that diocese. By the 1900s it had been reportedly lost again. Pietro Kandler included in his Dizionario e Indice a 17-page booklet titled Note tratte dalla Storia di Pola dell'Arciprete di Fasana (poi arcidiacono) dott. Pasquale Gobbi, del Preposito Luzzich, e del conte Angelo Vidovich, itself containing a 7-page summary of Gobbi's Storia di Pola.

Major works Storia di Pola ("History of Pola"), 215 pp., manuscript