Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga
Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga (born November 4, 1810 in Parma , † December 17, 1895 ) was an English-writing Italian writer, irredentist , member of parliament and publicist.
Life
Antonio Gallenga pursued medical studies at the University of Parma for two years , but threw himself into the vortex of political agitation at an early age and had to go into exile after 1831. He joined the secret society of Giovine Italia and, in adolescent fanaticism, took over the order from the Mazzinists to kill King Karl Albert ; At the crucial moment he lacked courage and now had to flee from the daggers of his like-minded people himself. Now he traveled to southern Italy, then Malta, America, England. He took the name Luigi Mariotti and initially published under this:
- Oltremonte ed Oltremare. Canti di un Pellegrino. Dati in luce da L. Mariotti (Boston and London 1844), further
- The Blackgown Papers (London 1846, 2 vols.) And
- Italy past and present (London 1846).
In 1848 he returned to Italy and joined the party of moderate liberals in Piedmont. The writing A che ne siamo? Pensieri di un Italiano d'oltremonti (1849). After the unfortunate outcome of the revolution settled in London again, he published there, always under the name Mariotti: Scenes from Italian life (1850); Italy in 1848 (1851). He also wrote journal articles and gave language lessons. His "Practical grammar of the Italian language" for the use of the English ( A practical grammar of the italian language ) (London 1851) saw ten editions. In 1853 he published: A historical memoir of Frà Dolcino and his times .
Following an invitation from Cavour , G. tried his luck again in the fatherland and was elected to parliament, but had to leave his seat because of the embarrassments the Mazzinists caused him with their revelations after he had recently shown their resentment by the way he has meanwhile been published book History of Piedmont (London 1855; Italian, Turin 1856, 2 vols.) about his former relations with the party ventured, challenged, and resigned.
He moved to Castellamonte in Piedmont, but soon afterwards back to England; In 1858 he went to Italy again, where he worked as a member of parliament and as a reporter for the London Times , which subsequently entrusted him with various programs.
In 1874 he accompanied the King of Italy to Berlin and Vienna. He later lived at Llandogo in Wales.
Publications
- Castellamonte; an autobiographical sketch illustrative of Italian Life during the insurrection of 1831 (London 1856; Italian, Turin 1857)
- Countrylife in Piedmont (1858)
- The Invasion of Denmark (2 vols., 1864)
- The Pearl of the Antilles (1873; Italian, Milan 1874)
- Italy revisited (1875, 2 vols.)
- Two years of the Eastern Question (1877, 2 vols.)
- The Pope and the king: The war between church and state in Italy (1879, 2 vols.)
- South America (1881)
- A Summer Tour in Russia (1882)
- Iberian reminiscences: Fifteen years' traveling impressions of Spain and Portugal (1883, 2 vols.)
- Episodes of my Second Life (1884, 2 vol.)
- L'Italia presente e futura (Florence 1886)
literature
- Giuseppe Monsagrati: GALLENGA, Antonio Carlo Napoleone. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 51: Gabbiani-Gamba. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1998.
- Toni Cerutti: Antonio Gallenga. An Italian writer in Victorian England . London [etc.]: Oxford University Press for the Univ. of Hull, 1974
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gallenga, Antonio Carlo Napoleone |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mariotti, Luigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian political writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parma |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1895 |