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Giacomo Levi-Civita (Rovigo 25 April 1846 - Padua 30 March 1922) has been a patriot, a lawyer, and a politician (Mayor of Padua (1904 - 1906) and a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy (1908-1922)).
Portait of Giuseppe Garibaldi with signed dedicatory to Giacomo Levi (who had not yet added his maternal surname "Civita") for his heroism in the Battle of Bezzecca (1866) during the Third Italian War of Independence
A publication dedicated to Giacomo Levi-Civita. In the cover a caricature with caption in Venetian dialect "Del foro padovan Xe questo un gran colosso Negarne mi non posso Pupazzo e amirazion"
The Scrovegni Chapel contains celebrated frescos by Giotto, completed around 1305. It constitutes an important masterpiece of Western Art. In 2021, the chapel was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The municipality of Padua tried to protect the chapel by undertaking its restoration several times. From 1859 it attempted public expropriation several times, but without success. In 1879, the young Giacomo Levi-Civita managed to demonstrate that the Scrovegni Chapel had been intended for public use since its foundation. The chapel was officially acquired by the municipality of Padua with a notarial deed in 1881, one year after the mandate of the City Council in the session of 10 May 1880.
Storia di un sindaco ebreo che salvo' Giotto ed i suoi affreschi
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