Career
He was decorated with the Cross of Devotion (SMO) on June 15, 1857. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871). Francesco founded the Philatelic Society in Dubrovnik on December 4, 1890.
Foreign other side Baron Gondola, an improving landlord and horticulturist of Lapad, introduced some years ago brussels sprouts, blue cabbage, and other vegetables, later he founded an Agronomy school in Lapad, Gruž.
Francesco was the first to install in the old city electrical energy to light the streets. And was in 1894 who gave permission for Hotel Imperial"s construction and thus to begin the policy of promoting tourism, which lasts until today.
He was carried along with the International Committee composed for the English ladies Mission Adeline Pauline Irby (*1831 +1911 Sarajevo) and Mission Priscilla Johnston (+1912 England) under m.Gabriel de Wesselitsky-Bojidarovitch, for Herzegovin refugees peoples. He wrote to the Times magazine, asking for further help for the refugees.
His letter appeared on 12 April 1875.
More than 150,000 people took refuge in Austro-Hungary in 1875 due to the Herzegovinian rebellion. Francesco was re-elected as the municipal chief in 1894 after a tumultuous election. He was affiliated with the Serb Catholic movement in 19th-century Dubrovnik and belonged to the pro-Italian Autonomist Party, but he himself wrote that he "wasn"t Croatian, Serbian or Italian in his ethnic affiliation, rather a Ragusan (Raguseo)".
In 1893 he opened the monument for Ivan Gundulić in Gundulić Square during the politically controversial unveiling of the Gundulić monument.
Francesco committed suicide in 1899, one day after delivering the account of the treasury of the municipality. The political opponents sabotaged their local government, stolen 10,000 florins of the local treasury.
He was buried in the Saint Mihajlo family cemetery in Lapad (in the Gruž district).
