Achille Bizzoni

Achille Bizzoni (born May 5, 1841 in Pavia , † September 21, 1903 in Milan ) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer.

Bizzoni began studying law at the University of Pavia , but interrupted it in 1859 to join the Sardinian army. In 1861 he took part in the siege of the fortress of Gaeta as a lieutenant and received a medal of bravery. As an adjutant to Benedetto Cairoli , he took part in the Third Italian War of Independence in Trentino in 1866 .

In 1867 he founded the magazine Gazzettino (later Gazzentino rosa ) in Milan , which focused on current political and social issues. In October of that year he joined the group of Giuseppe Garibaldi and then had to flee to Lugano, wanted by an arrest warrant. Felice Cavallotti was in charge of the Gazzettino at this time . Bizzoni published in the Gazzettino anonymously, later under the pseudonym Fortunio .

In 1874 he took over the management of the magazine Popolo in Genoa , from 1880 to 1883 he headed La Provincia Pavese and also worked for journals such as Capitan Fracassa and Nuova Farfalla . He then founded the literary magazine Commedia in Milan , which appeared until 1889 (from 1888 in Rome). In the 1890s he worked as a correspondent for Secolo and other Milanese newspapers in Africa. In addition to his journalistic work, Bizzoni also wrote translations, political writings, memory books and novels.

Works

• Onorevole , 1895
• Racconto di un amore , 1874
• Il Matrimonio , 188
• Impressioni di un volontario all'esercito dei Vosgi , 1874
• L'Eritrea nel passato e nel presente , 1897
• Storia della Rivoluzione francese (translation of the Histoire de la Révolution française by Jules Michelet ), 1898
• Garibaldi nella sua epopea , posth. 1907

literature

• Raffaele Colapietra:  BIZZONI, Achille. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 10:  Biagio-Boccaccio. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1968.