title: Pietro Stancovich
text: # Pietro Stancovich
  
  Pietro Mattia Stancovich or Petar Matija Stanković (Barban, February 24, 1771 – Barban, September 12, 1852) was a priest, historian and inventor, born in Istria.
  
  ## Biography
  
  He studied theology in Padua, was ordained in Pula and then appointed a canon in Barban. He self-published a total of twenty books, including a biography of prominent Istrians. Stancovic was also an inventor, constructing a sowing plow and two devices intended for the processing of olives (the spolpoliva and torchioliva). He wrote a treatise about his inventions, published in 1840. In Rovinj there is a library containing thousands of his books, called the Stancoviciana.
  
  