Antonio Aldini

Count Antonio Aldini (born December 27, 1755 in Bologna , † October 5, 1826 in Pavia ) was an Italian politician at the time of the Napoleonic Wars . He was chairman of the State Council of the Italian Republic in 1801 and Minister of the Interior from 1805 until the fall of Napoleon . As such, he ordered the dissolution of the rest of the church state on the instructions of Napoleon in May 1809 .

Career

Aldini was the one year after the end of his studies Rights at the University of Bologna in 1773, appointed to this: First, as a teacher of natural law , and later for the civil law and in 1786 finally for Public Law , during this time was also working as a criminal defense lawyer. His ultimately unsuccessful defense of the leading conspirators Giovanni Battista De Rolandis and Luigi Zamboni of a failed Jacobin coup attempt in 1796 made him popular in these circles, which led to his being sent to Paris as envoy of Bologna in June 1796 after the arrival of the French troops. After his return he was first president of the first parliamentary assembly of the Cisalpine Federation, on the policy of the second assembly around the turn of the year 1796/97, which transformed the Federation into the Unitarian Cisalpine Republic, he also had great influence.

As President of the Assembly of the Seniori ( Upper House ) of the Republic, he opposed an alliance treaty with Napoleonic France in early 1798, which led to his removal and brief banishment from public life.

With the renewed occupation of northern Italy by France, Aldini was rehabilitated and a member of the extraordinary governing council, in 1801 Napoleon appointed him Chairman of the Council of State of the Italian Republic, but Aldini was ousted by Melzi in 1803. When the republic was transformed into the Kingdom of Italy in 1805, Napoleon appointed Aldini Minister of the Interior. In this function he was responsible for the introduction of the modern Napoleonic legal and administrative order as well as for the dissolution of the Papal States.

After the fall of Napoleon, during the Congress of Vienna , Aldini tried to preserve Bologna's independence from the Papal States, which had only been achieved in 1796. He later lived in Milan and later returned to teaching as a professor at the University of Bologna.

Antonio Aldini was the brother of the naturalist Giovanni Aldini and nephew of Luigi Galvani .

literature

Giorgio Cencetti: Le tre legazioni. Antonio Aldini e il congresso di Vienna. In: Bologna. 8, 22, 1935, ZDB -ID 1319182-2 , pp. 17-28 (also: Separatum. Comune di Bologna, Bologna 1935).
Rita Maria Fenini: Antonio Aldini. Giurista, politico e proprietario terriero. Universita degli studi, Milan 1989.

Individual evidence

^ Website on Aldini's Dipartimento del Complesso di San Giovanni in Monte, Università di Bologna . ( Italian ), Meyers ⁴ (Volume 1, 1885, p. 380) and Brockhaus ¹⁴ (Volume 1, 1894, p. 353) give 1756 as the year of birth.
^ ^A ^b Entry on Aldini in Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon, 14th edition, Volume 1 from 1894, p. 353.
↑ De Rolandis was executed, Zamboni hanged himself during the trial, cf. ( Giovanni Battista De Rolandis ( Memento of January 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Italian ).

personal data
SURNAME	Aldini, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian politician at the time of the Napoleonic Wars
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bologna
DATE OF DEATH	October 5, 1826
Place of death	Pavia

[1] Website on Aldini's Dipartimento del Complesso di San Giovanni in Monte, Università di Bologna . ( Italian ), Meyers ⁴ (Volume 1, 1885, p. 380) and Brockhaus ¹⁴ (Volume 1, 1894, p. 353) give 1756 as the year of birth.

[Brock-2] A ^b Entry on Aldini in Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon, 14th edition, Volume 1 from 1894, p. 353.

[3] De Rolandis was executed, Zamboni hanged himself during the trial, cf. ( Giovanni Battista De Rolandis ( Memento of January 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Italian ).