1. Monaldo Leopardi's son Giacomo Leopardi was a poet and thinker with completely opposite views, which were probably the root cause of their discord.
20 Facts About Monaldo Leopardi
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Monaldo Leopardi's tutor, Father Jose Matias de Torres, was an exiled Jesuit from Veracruz, Mexico.
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In 1797 Monaldo Leopardi married a capable woman, Marquise Adelaide Antici, two years his junior, and daughter of a neighboring Recanatese family.
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At the time of their marriage, Monaldo Leopardi was the largest landholder in Recanati.
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Monaldo Leopardi was deeply shocked, too, by the impiety of the Republicans: two of the churches of Recanati were turned into stables, the black robes of the priests were requisitioned, and the monks were compelled to wear a cockade of France and to take their turn, still clothed in their monk's habits, in mounting guard at the city gates.
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Monaldo Leopardi was overwhelmed with financial problems: he speculated disastrously on the price of wheat and made an unfortunate attempt to redeem a part of the Roman Campagna, by introducing new agricultural methods there with disastrous results.
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Monaldo Leopardi, continually pressed and harassed by his creditors, was at his wits' end, and his wife Adelaide assumed, once and for all, complete command.
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Monaldo Leopardi summoned a family council, laid bare the whole situation, persuaded Monaldo to resign the management of the estate to an administrator, signed an agreement with his creditors, and herself became the undisputed mistress of the household.
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On learning of Edward Jenner's breakthrough in developing a vaccine against smallpox, Monaldo Leopardi was one of the first in Recanati to have his children vaccinated and to recommend it to others.
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In 1812 Monaldo Leopardi formally opened to the public the great library in his own house, which he had been preparing for the past ten years, hoping to upgrade the culture of his fellow citizens.
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Monaldo Leopardi held the office of mayor of Recanati from 1816 to 1819, and from 1823 to 1826.
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Monaldo Leopardi died in Recanati on 30 April 1847, at the age of 70.
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Monaldo Leopardi was buried in the church of Santa Maria di Varano.
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Monaldo Leopardi was heavily influenced by the conservative writers and philosophers Joseph de Maistre and Louis de Bonald.
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Monaldo Leopardi rejected the principles of liberalism and democracy and was persuaded that social order should reflect the disparities in intelligence and reason that existed in nature.
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Monaldo Leopardi goes wandering about the earth, and cannot find a homeland on earth.
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Monaldo Leopardi had one of the most extensive private libraries in all of Europe.
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Monaldo Leopardi was founder, manager, and editor of the influential extreme right-wing newspaper La Voce della Ragione, published from 1832 to 1835 and suppressed by order of the Roman Curia.
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The Autobiografia di Monaldo Leopardi gives a vivid picture of the background of the Leopardi family, and a self-portrait of the author.
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Monaldo Leopardi had a long-time correspondence with several important Roman Catholic intellectuals of his time.