Pisani's ancestors of French-Italian origin settled at the Levant at the end of the 18th century. They served French and Russian embassies in Constantinople. Pisani was therefore fluent in French and Italian and also had some knowledge of Serbo-Croatian.[2]
Career
Pisani was ordained a priest in 1878 and received his D.Litt. in 1893.[1] He was a professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris[3] from 1888 to 1889 and from 1908 to 1922. He was a close friend of Monseigneur Maurice Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst, founder of the Institut Catholique, and was his secretary from 1884 to 1888.[1]
Selected works
Les journaux français dans les Provinces Illyriennes pendant l'époque impériale - Paris 1887
La Légende de Skanderbeg - 1891
Num Ragusini ab omni iure Veneto a sæc. x usque ad sæac. xiv immunes fuerint - 1893
La Dalmatie de 1797 à 1815 - 1893
Études d'histoire religieuse: A travers l'Orient - 1987
Répertoire biographique de l'épiscopat constitutionnel (1791-1802) - 1907
Les Missions protestantes à la fin du XIXe siècle - 1908
L'église de Paris et la revolution - 1911
Les compagnies de prêtres du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle - 1928
Pisani emphasized in his works that pretended racial unity of the population of the Illyrian Provinces was partially imagingary.[4] He was a friend of Tullio Erber whose interpretation of some events was, according to Pisani, influenced by the Austrian government that was employer of Erber.[2]
References
^ abc(in French) Francesco Beretta. Monseigneur d'Hulst et la science chrétienne: portrait d'un intellectuel. Paris: Éditions Beauchesne, 1996, p. 14, fn. 2. ISBN2-7010-1343-7
^Actes (in French). U.S. National Committee of the International Geographical Union, National Academy of Sciences--National Research Council. 1890. p. 495. Retrieved 22 July 2011. Paul Pisani, Professeur à l'Institut Catholique de Paris
^Mary Eloise Bradshaw (1928). The Napoleonic Influence on the Illyrian Provinces. University of Wisconsin--Madison. p. introduction. Retrieved 4 January 2014. ...racially, with Albe Paul Pisani, when he says that the pretended unity of the Illyrian Provinces was partly imaginary.
Further reading
Blackwood's Magazine. W. Blackwood. 1842. p. 142. - about other members of Pisani family and their diplomatic career in Constantinople
