Angelo Somazzi

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Angelo Somazzi (* 1803 in Senj ; † December 26, 1892 in Gentilino (today: Collina d'Oro )) was a Swiss engineer, architect, politician and journalist.

Life

Angelo Somazzi was the son of the builder Giacomo Somazzi (1762-1853) and his wife Elisabetta, née De Dominis; his mother came from the island of Arbe in Dalmatia . After the family returned to Switzerland from Dalmatia, they did not settle in Montagnola , the birthplace of his father until 1814 , and later in Gentilino.

He attended the parish school in Agra (today: Collina d'Oro) and in Sorengo , then the College of San Antonio in Lugano , the grammar school in Milan and the University of Pavia and the University of Padua . He finished his studies as an engineer and architect in Pavia . Together with his cousin Domenico Gilardi , he planned to work in Russia and learned Russian for this ; In the period from 1831 to 1832 he published the Italian translation of Faddei Wenediktowitsch Bulgarin's novel Giovanni Vixighin in four volumes.

From 1829 to 1830 he completed a one-year internship at the Directorate for Public Works in Milan. Then he returned to Ticino and joined the liberal reform movement there. He was friends with Stefano Franscini .

Angelo Somazzi worked in various administrative offices: from 1831 to 1833 he was secretary of the Education Commission, from 1833 to 1834 as editor of the Bullettino officiale del Gran Consiglio and from 1839 to 1830 first as a deputy and from 1839 to 1844 as chief engineer for public buildings , but was then dismissed after a conflict with the cantonal engineer Pasquale Lucchini (1798–1869). He then turned to politics and became involved with the conservatives and worked as a polemical journalist.

In 1847 he founded the paper Confederato Ticinese , which he published in the same year, whereupon he was attacked because of the article. On the night of 19./20. On August 1st, he was attacked by an angry crowd in his country house near Lugano and was only able to escape to Brusimpiano with difficulty . His wife, who remained in the house, was able to prevent the mob from setting fire to the house, but all the furniture was smashed. Angelo Somazzi made a petition to the State Council asking for the perpetrators to be punished and for permission to carry a weapon for his own protection. He temporarily stopped publishing his newspaper. The armed men were probably supporters of Giacomo Luvini .

As a supporter of the Sonderbund , he voluntarily went into exile in Milan; There he took over the management of the Austria- friendly newspapers La Bilancia, Gazzetta Ufficiale di Milano and Gazzetta Ufficiale di Venezia from 1850 to 1865 . He was president of the influential Ticino committee residing there, with Corrado Molo and Vincenzo Borsa (1796–1871) as secretaries. This was later heard by the Milanese government when a decision had to be made as to which Ticino citizens no longer had to apply spatial restrictions if they were not allowed to leave Milan.

On November 24, 1863, there was an assassination attempt on him in which the perpetrators threw an Orsini bomb into his office. However, the bomb burst without exploding. The perpetrators who carried out further attacks on other politicians were arrested.

In June 1866 he finally returned to Ticino. After the Conservatives took power in 1875, he was briefly editor of the newspaper La Libertà .

In addition to his journalistic writings, he also wrote occasional poems. In the last years of his life he translated texts from French and wrote biographies about the architect Giocondo Albertolli and the educator Don Alberto Lamoni (1798–1838).

Angelo Somazzi was married to Carolina, née Soldini, since 1833.

honors and awards

Angelo Somazzi received the Knight's Cross of the Royal Sicilian Order Francis I.

Writings and translations (selection)

  • Voti di Angelo Somazzi di Montagnola ai rappresentanti del popolo sovrano del Cantone Ticino intitolati agli onorevoli membri del Gran Consiglio Ao Corrado Molo di Bellinzona e Ao Domenico Galli di Locarno. . Giuseppe Ruggia e Comp., Lugano 1830.
  • Discorso all'Assemblea del Circolo d'Agno. Giuseppe Ruggia e Comp., Lugano 1830.
  • Faddei Wenediktowitsch Bulgarin; Angelo Somazzi: Giovanni Vixighin. (Volumes 1, 2 , 3 and 4 ). Capolago 1831-1832.
  • Lettera all'estinore del "Repubblicano", Melide 14 gennaio 1846: protesta contro le sue calunnie. Tipografia Veladini e Comp, Lugano 1846.
  • In faustissimo Mediolanum adventu Francisci Josephi II. Imperatoris et Regis PFA et Elisabeth-Amaliae jus augustae conjugis Imperatricis et Reginae Ode Italica D.ris Angelo Somazzi a Blasio e baronibus Ghetaldi Rhacusino Latinis versibus expressa. Lugano 1857.
  • Joseph Chantrel; Angelo Somazzi: Storia popolare dei Papi. Tipografia dell'Immacolata Concezione, Modena 1863-1865.
  • Il canale marittimo dell'Istmo di Suez: Canzone al Sig. Fernando di Lesseps. Lugano 1869.
  • Il progresso scientifico, il riscatto del Cantone Ticino, il traforo del Gottardo e la società di Pio IX. Traversa e Degiorgi, Lugano 1882.
  • Cav. Giocondo Albertolli di Bedano: Cenni biografici. Bellinzona 1883.
  • Don Alberto Lamoni di Muzzano: Canonico di Agno. Tipo-litografia cantonale, Bellinzona 1883.

literature

  • Carlo Agliati: Ingegneri nel Canton Ticino nell'Ottocento. In: Avvocati, medici, ingegneri. Edited by ML Betri and A. Pastore, 1997, 337 f.
  • Mario Agliati : Storia e storie della Collina d'Oro. Volume 2, Editori Gaggini-Bizzozero SA, Lugano 1978, 50 f.
  • Carlo Agliati: Angelo Somazzi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 14, 2013 , accessed January 17, 2020 .
  • Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 27.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung No. 221 of September 4, 1847 . 1847 ( google.de [accessed June 7, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Constantin Siegwart-Müller: The struggle between law and violence in the Swiss Confederation and my share in it . S. 347. Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1866 ( google.de [accessed June 7, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Journal v. April 6, 1853 . Heller & Rohm, 1853 ( google.de [accessed June 7, 2019]).
  4. ^ A. Pawlitschek: Schlesischer Bote . A. Pawlitschek, 1863 ( google.de [accessed June 7, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Leitmeritzer Wochenblatt No. 52 v. December 24, 1864 . Medau, 1864 ( google.de [accessed June 7, 2019]).
  6. ^ Franz Tschudy von Glarus: Oesterreichische Zeitungshalle v. March 27, 1857 . Ed .: FB Tschudy von Glaris. Holzwarth, 1837 ( google.de [accessed June 7, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Somazzi, Angelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Senj
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1892
Place of death Gentilino