Born in Venice on March 2, 1841.
Died there on 23 June 1923.
Coming from a noble Bolognese family who moved to Venice in the 1887th century, she founded the Opera dei Congressi Cattolica, of which she was the undisputed guide for decades. Graduated in law from the University of Padua, he practiced law until his last days, often in defense of the poor or the interests of the Catholic cause (in 1902 he defended, for example, Don Albertario, accused of defamation by Abbot Stoppani, in XNUMX the Fatebenefratelli accused of ill-treatment of the mentally ill in the hospital of S. Servolo). Also appreciated by opponents for science, probity and loyalty, he was a dynamic organizer of Catholic social and political initiatives, marked by the clearest intransigence and profound aversion to liberalism.
Don Guanella, certainly present at the event, gives a detailed report of the meeting of the Milanese diocesan committee of August 3, 1893 during which, under the presidency of Count Paganuzzi «of more than Italian fame in the defense and promulgation of the Catholic maxim» , the importance of the work of the schools was discussed.
Sources:
SILVIO TRAMONTIN, ad vocem, in Historical dictionary of the Catholic movement in Italy, vol. II: The protagonists, Casale Monferrato, Marietti, 1982, pp. 441-448.
ALFREDO CANAVERO, Catholics in Italian society from the mid-800s to the Second Vatican Council, Brescia, La Scuola, 1991, pp. 349-350.
Guanellian sources:
[Luigi Guanella], The meeting of the Milanese diocesan committee on 3 August, and the nursery schools of S. Luigi in the Borgo degli Ortolani, in «La Divina Provvidenza», 1893, p. 81.
Photographs:
ANGELO MARCHESAN, Pope Pius X in his life and in his word. Historical study of his old pupil, Einsiedeln, Benzinger & Co., 1905, p. 417.