Michele Stratico

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Giuseppe Michele Stratico (31 July 1728 – 31 January 1783 was an Venetian composer and violinist. Stratico was born in Zara, Republic of Venice. His father, Giuseppe Battista (ca. 1690-28 November 1770) left Crete shortly before the Venetian Republic lost the island to the Ottomans in 1718. After spending a few years in Bari, Giovanni Battista found shelter in Zara in 1720 or 1721, where he married in 1725 Maria Castelli di Chio (ca. 1700 – 18 April 1796. Her brother Ivan Antun II Castelli (1706–78) was bishop of Kotor (1744). On 5 November 1725 Giuseppe Battista confirmed his nobility from Crete at the civic municipality of the town Nin. Four of their twelve children achieved distinction. Domenico (1732–1799), who joined the Dominican Order, was a professor of biblical exegesis and Greek literature at the Universities of Siena (1763) and Pisa (1769), and later the Bishop of Novigrad (Istria; 1776) and Hvar (Dalmatia; 1784). Simone (1733–1824) was a prominent physicist, educator, and scientist known by Carlo Goldoni and Voltaire. In 1815 he wrote the treatise Tentativo per determinare la cagione fisica della diferenza delle voci unisoni, e della varia sensazione che esse producano, in which he discusses the differences between noises and sounds, timbre, articulation, and temperament. The fourth brother, Gregorio (1736–1806), remained in Zadar occupied with legal, diplomatic, and historical work. After receiving the rudiments of general education in his native Zadar, Giusep

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