author
Alberto P. Guglielmotti
1812–1893
A Dominican priest with a sailor’s curiosity, he became one of 19th-century Italy’s best-known historians of naval warfare and seafaring life. His writing joined religious learning, archival patience, and a vivid interest in the people and ships that shaped Mediterranean history.
3 Audiobooks
La guerra dei pirati e la marina pontificia dal 1500 al 1560, vol. 1
by Alberto P. Guglielmotti
La guerra dei pirati e la marina pontificia dal 1500 al 1560, vol. 2
by Alberto P. Guglielmotti
Marcantonio Colonna alla battaglia di Lepanto
by Alberto P. Guglielmotti
About the author
Born in Civitavecchia in 1812 and later dying in Rome in 1893, Alberto Guglielmotti was an Italian Dominican priest, writer, and scholar. Sources consistently describe him as a theologian and historian, and he is especially remembered for his studies of naval battles and the exploits of sailors from the Italian peninsula.
He also worked as librarian of the Casanatense Library in Rome in the 1850s, a role that fits the strong documentary side of his work. Alongside his religious vocation, he developed a reputation as an erudite researcher with interests that reached beyond theology into history, philology, and the maritime past.
For readers today, Guglielmotti stands out as a writer who helped preserve Italy’s seafaring memory in careful, ambitious historical prose. His books are likely to appeal to anyone interested in naval history, Catholic scholarship, or the broad intellectual world of 19th-century Italy.